COVID-19 waves in the US: How is my state doing? Seeing is believing.

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(Last updated on 2022-10-23. Published initially on November 1, 2020.)

For further data, including states ranked by the latest 7-day average of new cases per population, please see this.

For the earlier publication, “Is my state ready to reopen? Seeing is believing,” please see this.

The first COVID-19 case in the US was reported on January 3rd 2020. Since March, many states have implemented various strategies to “flatten the curve”. In late Spring when most states were in their first wave, the most dominant question was if our states were ready to reopen.

Since then states have experienced vastly different curves to date. Some are in the middle of the first wave - which can be unprecedentedly high, unfortunately. A majority of states, however, now face new waves of COVID-19 - although distinguishing a wave from another is not always straight forward or meaningful.

We follow each state’s curve below, organized by geography. States are grouped by USDA’s geographic region and division classification.

Northeast

Note: The x-axis is date since March. The y-axis is 7-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 population. The darker blue section of the line represents the lastest 30 days. The gray line is the US national data. The light gray box represents the number of daily new cases 10 or lower per 100,000.

Hover over the figures to see the underlying data.

South Atlantic

Note: The x-axis is date since March. The y-axis is 7-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 population. The darker blue section of the line represents the lastest 30 days. The gray line is the US national data. The light gray box represents the number of daily new cases 10 or lower per 100,000.

Hover over the figures to see the underlying data.

South Central

Note: The x-axis is date since March. The y-axis is 7-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 population. The darker blue section of the line represents the lastest 30 days. The gray line is the US national data. The light gray box represents the number of daily new cases 10 or lower per 100,000.

Hover over the figures to see the underlying data.

Midwest

Note: The x-axis is date since March. The y-axis is 7-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 population. The darker blue section of the line represents the lastest 30 days. The gray line is the US national data. The light gray box represents the number of daily new cases 10 or lower per 100,000.

Hover over the figures to see the underlying data.

West

Note: The x-axis is date since March. The y-axis is 7-day rolling average of daily new cases per 100,000 population. The darker blue section of the line represents the lastest 30 days. The gray line is the US national data. The light gray box represents the number of daily new cases 10 or lower per 100,000.

Hover over the figures to see the underlying data.

All COVID-19 data (i.e., cumulative confirmed cases and deaths by day) come from JHU/CSSE, accessed on 2022-10-23. All data on state population come from US Census Bureau, accessed on March 29, 2020.

For those interested in the methods and more data by state, please see this.

For those interested in the US curve, compared to other countries, please see this.

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