March 16, 2020, 1:58 PM PDT
We added Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, Samoa, and the US Virgin Islands today, too.
April 3, 2020, 2:30 PM PDT
Per-capita testing rates vary extremely widely among U.S. states. For context, on this metric:
Germany: ~1100 tests per 100k people South Korea: ~840 tests per 100k people UK: ~247 tests per 100k people
(Drawing those numbers from this @NPR story: https://t.co/vmdK9K4Eez) https://t.co/cOiK6BiVU3
May 8, 2020, 3:02 PM PDT
My apologies—as some of you (and our own team) pointed out—Colorado is also reporting serology tests.
(Puerto Rico does, too.)
-@alexismadrigal
June 18, 2020, 2:19 PM PDT
For one thing, only half of states report them despite direction to do so from the CDC. Also, although probables currently account for less than 1% of the nat'l total, they make up 8-20% in the states with the highest proportion of probables, and 75% of all cases in Puerto Rico.
July 25, 2020, 3:49 PM PDT
But here’s some great news about hospitalization data: We now have figures for current COVID-19 hospitalizations for 50 states and DC + Guam and Puerto Rico. Once the data settles down from the systems changeover, this should be a very solid national number.
November 7, 2020, 4:31 PM PST
Today, Puerto Rico switched from using antibody tests to antigen tests to identify probable cases. We matched the history of our probable cases to the new definition and removed probables defined via antibody from 4/24 onward. This caused a drop of 34k in cumulative cases in PR.