A look at the latest US Covid-19 data one year after WHO declared a global pandemic
From CNN’s Brandon Miller
As we mark the one-year anniversary of the World Health Organization calling the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic – and ahead of President Joe Biden’s first prime-time address tonight – here is a look at the current state of the Covid-19 pandemic through the latest trends and metrics of Covid data, as well as comparisons to the peak of the pandemic.
There have been over 29 million total cases, per data from JHU, this is about 9% of the total US Population.
The US is averaging56,240 new cases per day over the past seven days. This is the lowest that metric has been since mid-October.
One month ago, we were averaging almost double — 104k new cases per day.
The peak of daily new cases occurred on January 8, with just under 250,000 new cases per day.
The US is averaging 1,437 deaths per day over the past seven days. This the lowest that metric has been since Nov. 19.
One month ago, we were averaging more than 2,700 deaths per day.
The peak of daily average deaths occurred on January 14, with 3,418 deaths per day.
The US is currently under 43,000 hospitalizations from Covid, according to data from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Just over one month ago, on Feb. 5, there were more than double the current number, with 87,240 hospitalized, per HHS.
Hospitalizations peaked in January with more than 130,000 hospitalized according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.
The US positivity rate is currently 4.2%, per data from HHS. It dropped under 5% at the end of February.
The positivity rate for the country dropped below 10% on Jan. 22 of this year
The peak positivity rate since widespread testing started in late-spring 2020 occurred the first week of January 2021, at 14.9%