On Tuesday, the United States recorded 512,553 daily new cases, according to Johns Hopkins University. That is, by far, the single highest daily case number recorded during the entire Covid-19 pand…
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One mitigating factor is the Christmas weekend. May testing centers were likely closed over the holiday, meaning some test results that would have been recorded during that period likely rolled over to Monday and today. But even a measure that accounts for reporting ups and downs, the seven-day average of new daily cases,today was a record. The 253,245 cases as of Tuesday afternoon eclipsed the previous 7-day average daily high of 248,209. That was on January 12.86,634 new cases today. That number tops the 60,107 the state saw on January 4 of this year.
A more trusted data point, the 7-day average test positivity, moved from 3.4% seven days ago to 9.7% today. That’s a 182% increase in one week, a very steep trend line for a number that is both an average and a percentage unaffected by total number of tests.
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