Alabama

@MadeUpMasters MANUAL. We have scrapers running, but there is a ton of nuance to the data. https://t.co/unIBICkhpo from Danny Yang is the most up-to-date we have seen. That's an independent effort, but he's in our Slack, too, and he's done an incredible job. -@alexismadrigal

For perspective, that jump is 4 times greater than the TOTAL number of tests that had been done when we published this story on March 6, and launched this project with @hackingdata. https://t.co/RnIKdMJCGc

A few states reported shortly after our daily update: AL, FL, SC. https://t.co/uhD8fa6x8P

We'd also draw your attention to a cluster of southern states that are undertested, but have rising case loads, especially on a per-capita basis: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi. https://t.co/7yChSLGK6x

Many states reported a huge number of tests, including a known backlog clearing from MA (30k+). NY reported almost 50k tests; TX over 20k.

AL, CA, FL, GA, IL, MA, NY, TN, TX all reported over 10k tests.

One unusual situation: Mississippi testing is ~slowing~ as the state re-opens.

(For comparison, see neighboring states like Alabama, Tennessee, and Arkansas.) https://t.co/aHf8wia9sD

In addition to the states we've mentioned recently, Alabama, Arizona, California, and Wisconsin are worth keeping eyes on.

California and Arizona had new highs for cases today. Alabama and Wisconsin set highs yesterday. https://t.co/M2JTnIfchI

1/2 A list of states/territories in which African American COVID deaths substantially exceed the community's share of the population:

Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut D.C. Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Michigan Mississippi

Current hospitalizations ticked up for the first time since early May today. That's largely because Alabama began reporting hospitalizations today, which added 600 people to the known national total of ~31k. https://t.co/sDAOWT6QYg

We also just a number of new cases for Texas—1,826—in line with the state's recent growing numbers.

Arizona remains a trouble spot.

Alabama, which is experiencing an increase in cases, recently began reporting hospitalization. https://t.co/GtgfKkinE8

Alabama reported over 1000 new daily cases for the first time. https://t.co/M7fZuCitmK

A few other states to keep an eye on: Arkansas, Florida, Alabama.

(Note: Florida does not provide a "currently hospitalized figure) https://t.co/dpSELg9SC0

Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida all reported more than 1000 cases today. https://t.co/RysGHFrCF1

Here's a map of the number of new cases reported today. Note that Ohio and Alabama both almost broke 1,000. https://t.co/Fe2iixSRnH

Though Mondays are typically low reporting days, three states broke that trend. Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee reported large numbers today. https://t.co/O2QhlEsJVz

Alabama set a new record for deaths (47), breaking their previous record, which was set yesterday. Oklahoma set a new record for cases today, breaking 1000 for the first time. Both states also set new records for hospitalized COVID-19 patients. https://t.co/pbOJ2T5wLi

Today, ID is back, but we’re missing hospitalization updates from states including AL, AR, CT, IA, LA, MI, MO, MS, NH, OR, RI, SC, and WY. Some due to the new HHS directive, others because it’s the weekend.

We will keep reporting on the availability of this data.

Our daily update is published. States reported 769k tests, 64k new cases, and 523 deaths. Hospitalizations fell a little but there’s a major caveat there: The decline is due to strange data from Alabama. https://t.co/vlnciB4q18

Our hospitalization data became very solid with the inclusion of Florida’s numbers on July 10. Then came the new HHS guidelines. Since then, some individual states' numbers have become more erratic. See, for example, Alabama today. https://t.co/G5zOAVA7kg

UPDATE: Alabama’s reporting returned to normal, indicating that its hospitalizations did not drastically fall yesterday. Once the error was fixed, the national number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 rose. https://t.co/vcM9C9CctX

Populous states can generate large case counts, but if you look at the new cases per million today, 9 smaller states are showing more cases per million than California or Texas: AL, AR, ID, KS, KY, LA, MS, NV, and SC. https://t.co/1pYW6cWRaS

A note: we found a better official source of Alabama data. This pushed up the historical numbers of hospitalizations by ~400 in mid-April. Without that backfill, today would have set the new peak for hospitalized COVID-19 patients the U.S. Even so, today’s figure is 3rd all-time.

Update for our data users - we continued to implement changes to our original totalTestResults API field, resulting in a ~600k cumulative test increase since March.

We updated test totals for 14 states: AK, AL, AR, AS, CA, DC, GA, ID, KY, MN, NH, SD, VA, and WA.

Our daily update is published. States reported 870k tests, 57k cases, 40k currently hospitalized, and 994 COVID-19 deaths. Note: Updates were not available from FL, GA, and AL. https://t.co/W7soJvLKw5

An important caveat to today's record high numbers. AL reported ~4k cases due to a backlog of antigen tests. CA reported 6k cases, 2k of which were backlogs.

AL, CO, OR, UT, SD, and RI all reported record high case counts. Both ND and SD are reporting more than 1,000 cases per million people. https://t.co/gwe2HgVquJ

But some small states have severe problems, too. Alabama, Arizona, and Nevada have very high hospitalization rates per capita. https://t.co/Sz9H82Boz8

Our eyes are on 5 states this week: AL, AZ, CA, GA, and FL―where surges in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are steadily growing. Alarmingly, AZ currently has the worst per-capita new case numbers in the world.

We recently released a visualization of the @HHSGOV hospital data. It is a weekly average for COVID-19 metrics for each individual hospital across the country. This week, facilities across the South (though especially in Alabama) are under serious pressure. https://t.co/1HNKXyNPyE

Today’s update includes no data from CT, KS, LA, or RI, and no data except hospitalizations from AL. The MA update includes data from approximately 24,800 PCR tests not reported yesterday due to a technical problem.

AL added over 2k cases to the data today which is reflected in today's total case count. https://t.co/ijBN83GgnN