Covid by Dave

Connecticut was doing ok until this past month when things went crazy. They're at almost double their previous peak and more than five times the caseload of last month. Deaths haven't caught up yet but that may be coming.

Colorado's been getting hammered the past five months, matching their previous peak this past month. Deaths are going up too.

California had been doing pretty OK until last month when it spiked massively. Deaths have been moderate but that may not last.

Arkansas is having mixed results lately, with one week being up to their previous peak and then the next two much lower. Will need to be followed going forward.

Continuing on my state by state review of the current Covid situation, I present to you Arizona. They have been having a rough time lately but it's not nearly as bad as their original super spike.

Mass Covid 19 update. More suckage today. Cases jumped back up, to 26,187, and they did 116,244 tests so the Positive Test Rate jumped up a whole point to 22.5%. Deaths were very high too, at fifty five. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,181,282 Total Confirmed Deaths: 20,116 More bad news in the hospitals. One hundred and thirteen more people went into the hospital, and five more went into the ICU. That brings those numbers up to 2,637 and 421, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Things keep grinding on. Cases dropped down slightly, to 24,570, and they did 114,017 tests, so the Positive Test Rate jumped back up to 21.5%. Deaths stayed very high, at forty three. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,155,095 Total Confirmed Deaths: 20,061 Mixed news in the hospitals. Ninety eight more people went into the hospitals but eleven got out of the ICU. That brings those numbers to 2,524 and 416, respectively.

Keeping on with my new project, here are the numbers for Alaska. Seems like this recent wave was much worse for them as far as deaths go.

Haven't done one of these for a while now, ever since my primary source of data, The Covid Tracking Project, shut down back when they thought this was going away. Whoops. Guess not. Here are the numbers for Alabama. I'll be trying to crank these out for all 50 states plus DC and PR over the next month. Let me know if you like this stuff. It's a bunch of work but I'll do it if people are into it.

Mass Covid 19 update. Things are going crazy right about now. Cases soared, to 27,612, which is by far our biggest case total of any day during the pandemic. They did more tests, 138,316, so the Positive Test Rate actually dropped a little bit to 20.0%. Deaths stayed very high, at fifty four. We crossed the 20,000 deaths threshhold today, sadly. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,130,525 Total Confirmed Deaths: 20,018 Things eased up slightly in the hospitals. "Only" fifty four people went into the hospital, which is better than the 209 per day that were going in the past two days. ICU got better too, with fourteen people getting out of the ICU. That brings those numbers to 2,426 and 427, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Very, very bad day today. Cases jumped up from this weekend, to 16,621, and they only did 73,343 tests, so the Positive Test Rate continues to head out of control at 22.7%. Deaths were an absurdly high NINETY FOUR. Yikes. At this rate we'll cross the 20,000 deaths threshold tomorrow. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,102,913 Total Confirmed Deaths: 19,964 Another very bad day in the hospitals, especially the ICU. We had a hundred and fifty one more people go into the hospital today and thirty nine more go into the ICU. Ouch. That brings those numbers up to 2,372 and 441, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Cases dropped a bit, but hospitalizations skyrocketed. Cases came in at 31,184 for the weekend, or 10,395 per day, which is about half of what it was the two days previous. They did 150,868 tests, so the Positive Test Rate continued it's process skyward at 20.7%. Deaths were moderate, at 39 for the weekend or 13 per day. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,086,292 Total Confirmed Deaths: 19,870 Wicked bad news in the hospitals. Two hundred and sixty seven more people went into the hospital, and fifteen more went into the ICU. That brings those numbers up to 2,221 and 402, respectively.

Mass Covid 19 update. Another crappy day, but at least the case count stabilized and stopped going up by 5,000 a day. We went from 10k cases per day to 15k cases per day to 21k cases per day in three days. Cases came in at 21,397, which is almost exactly the same as yesterday. They did 113,963 tests so the Positive Test Rate continued to skyrocked at 18.8%. Deaths were very high as well, at forty eight. Total Confirmed Cases: 1,055,108 Total Confirmed Deaths: 19,831 More grim news in the hospitals, with another 137 more people going into the hospital and five more going into the ICU. That brings the numbers up to 1,954 and 387, respectively.

Re-did my Massachusetts New Covid Deaths per Week chart and the results are grim. Between June and August we were averaging fewer than 20 deaths a week. The past two weeks we've averaged 205 deaths per week. That's pretty nasty.