New U.S. COVID-19 cases rise 17% in past week, deaths up 5%

[TomCADem]

Source: KFGO

(Reuters) - The weekly number of new COVID-19 cases in the United States rose last week for the first time after falling for eight straight weeks, an increase that health experts attributed to schools reopening and parties over the Labor Day holiday.

New cases rose 17% to about 287,000 for the week ended Sept. 20, while deaths rose 5.5% to about 5,400 people after falling for the previous four weeks, according to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports.

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Nationally, the share of all tests that came back positive for COVID-19 fell for a seventh week to 5.0%, well below a recent peak of nearly 9% in mid-July, according to data from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the outbreak.

However, 26 of the 50 states still have positive test rates above the 5% level that the World Health Organization considers concerning. The highest positive test rates are in the Midwest at over 16% in Idaho, Wisconsin, Iowa and South Dakota.

Read more: https://kfgo.com/2020/09/21/new-u-s-covid-19-cases-rise-17-in-past-week-deaths-up-5/

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So, South Dakota is now leading the nation in positive test rates.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/testing/tracker/overview

Perhaps the Governor will blame the Fox News curse where a Republican brags about how they are ignoring social distancing measures and promoting tourism only to have reality get them in the end.

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility.

Bad news. This is before the seasonal flu is in full vigor.

[Roc2020]

2. Could this virus actually peak and kill the most people

around election day!! OMG.

[Igel]

5. The number of dead each day would have to more than double

to reach the 2000+ daily dead from mid-late April. The average after May 1 only got a bit over *half* of that death toll for a few days in early August, then it fell down. It's currently at around 1/3 of the death count from mid-April. We forget exactly how bad it was in those states.

Texas is ahead of California in its death rate, but still trails states like NY, NJ, CT, and RI by a wide, wide margin.

Looking at Europe should teach each of us to wait for the final count before crowing.

[oldsoftie]

3. We are still stable/dropping here in GA. Fewer than 1/2 hospitalized now than 6 weeks ago.

Locally, our hospital has from 1/4-1/3 the admissions that we had in July, depending on the day.
After this week is over, any effects of the Labor Day holiday would surely have occurred.
Hopefully we continue to drop.

[ffr]

4. Xmas 2020 will feel like Xmas 1917.

The good old days ended in 2016.