On Saturday, 12 states hit record seven-day rolling average case counts, according to a Business Insider analysis of data from The COVID Tracking Project , which compiles data from state and territory-level public health authorities.
Alaska, Colorado,
Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Oregon,
South Dakota, and Utah recorded more new infections in the last seven days than
they ever have in a one-week period.
The US overall has
recorded more than 50,000 new cases each day for the last four days. The
country hasn't seen such a streak since mid-August.
Case counts are high with a seven-day daily average of at least
15 new cases per 100,000 people in 26 states, according to analysis from The New York Times . Daily case counts
are growing in another 16 states and Washington, DC.
"We are all seeing increasing numbers of Covid-19 patients
who are coming into our ERs, who are getting really sick, requiring
hospitalization and even intensive care," Megan Ranney, an emergency-room
physician and Brown University associate professor, told Queensvibe Agent on
Sunday. "We are all deeply afraid that this is the beginning of that
dreaded second wave."
Experts have long
warned that the coronavirus could make a fall resurgence, as children and
college students return to classrooms and cooler weather sends people indoors.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases and the nation's top infectious-disease expert, has
said that Americans need to "hunker down and get through this fall and
winter."
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 23:
Anthony Fauci, director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases at NIH, looks on before testifying at a Senate Health, Education, and
Labor and Pensions Committee on Capitol Hill, on September 23, 2020 in
Washington, DC. Dr. Fauci addressed the testing of vaccines and if they will be
ready by the end of the year or early 2021.
"As we get into
the fall and we do more indoor things, we are likely to see upticks in
COVID-19," Fauci said in a September panel discussion with Harvard Medical
School.
Daily death counts are
still trending downward. But deaths usually lag behind case counts by three to
four weeks as it takes time to die of a coronavirus infection.
An influential COVID-19 model , from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the
University of Washington School of Medicine, is now projecting that deaths will
peak at about 2,300 per day in mid-January and that the total death toll will
nearly double to 400,000 by February.
If 95% of the population wore masks in public, the IHME
model projects , the death toll would
be about 315,000 my February. Currently, less than 70% of people surveyed have
said they do so.
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