South Dakota

By known positive tests, the 10 states with the highest per capita number of cases are: Washington New York Colorado Massachusetts Louisiana Rhode Island New Jersey South Dakota New Hampshire Georgia

We just updated the race and ethnicity data in the COVID Racial Data Tracker and we're happy to report progress. Only four states do not report some kind of race/ethnicity data.

They are: North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, and South Dakota.

https://t.co/hTyV0MA5tA

South Dakota began reporting race & ethnicity data today. In a 90% white state, almost 70% of cases are people of color because of meatpacking outbreaks.

Of the 3 states still not reporting any of this data -- NE, ND, NV -- Nebraska, especially, may have similar dynamics. https://t.co/ox1kC9bIb1

Looking at 2019 Census estimates, the demographic picture in South Dakota has become a bit more diverse, but the larger point stands. https://t.co/kotHUYEyk6 https://t.co/w0jBM4rKh1

Another 7 states — HI, ME, MT, NM, SD, UT, WY — are not reporting race / ethnicity for deaths.

TX is reporting but >70% of cases and deaths are listed as unknown.

Some data is better than none, but it's still not enough.

See the rest of the data: https://t.co/Ek3yOTKBgq

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.

The number of cases and hospitalizations continues to grow in ND, SD and WI. A few days after breaking their new case record, today Wisconsin reported 530 current hospitalized patients, the highest in the state on a single day. https://t.co/V4rcTv7kVF

Cases are increasing in most of the Midwest. Both Wisconsin and South Dakota reported their highest single-day case counts today. https://t.co/m3FLfMO0oQ

Our daily update is published. States reported 851k tests, 51k cases, and 916 deaths. Montana and South Dakota both hit record high COVID-19 case counts today. https://t.co/n3mhCcvVFF

MT, ND and SD are reporting stark increases in cases and hospitalizations. The 7-day average for new cases reported in all three has more than doubled in the past month. https://t.co/1D2p0v2qRw

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

South Dakota reported 1,506 new cases per million people, surpassing North Dakota's count. The Dakotas have had the highest counts for this metric for more than two months now. https://t.co/FcKxnXHCT9

Disparities in cases and deaths across racial and ethnic communities remain high: In MT, one in every 18 Indigenous people has tested positive, compared to one in 67 white people. In ND, one in 11 Black people has tested positive, and in SD, the figure is one in 10. https://t.co/Y7mxOiKJzs

South Dakota's hospitalization rates are the highest in the country. There are 640 currently hospitalized per million people in the state. https://t.co/Ju0EtoiOpB

South Dakota’s long-term care data last week painted a dire picture as 73% of deaths that occurred in the state were among long-term care residents. https://t.co/7ZW1pQ2nnU

In North and South Dakota, COVID-19 deaths per million are similar to rates in Michigan back in April - and are likely to continue rising. https://t.co/ouzy50Lgit

Hospitalizations per million people are currently over 500 in ND and SD. 8 states have over 400 hospitalizations per million people. https://t.co/QBYyKlDg4h

There are 3 states reporting over 500 hospitalizations per million people: ND, SD, and now NE. https://t.co/YwNwFc4CIz

Only 4 states—HI, ME, NH, VT—have fewer than 100 people per million hospitalized with COVID-19. South Dakota and Nebraska have the most people hospitalized per capita, with North Dakota, Illinois, and Indiana close behind. https://t.co/mxRLdjJQvH

The following jurisdictions did not report today: AS, CT, FL, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MP, NC, NH, OH, RI, SC, SD, UT, VI, VT, WY. 10 more reported partial data. Some will report two days of data tomorrow.

Indiana and Nevada are now reporting more than 500 currently hospitalized per million people, along with South Dakota. For reference, the highest value of hospitalizations per million people we've seen was 968 in New York back in April. https://t.co/140cQIWjDh

In RI, more than 1 in 8 Latinx people have tested positive for COVID-19, compared to 1 in 31 white people. In SD, 1 in 7 Native Americans has tested positive for COVID-19. Per capita cases in this population have been the highest in SD for the last 3 months.

NV leads the nation in currently hospitalized patients per million people, followed by SD and AZ, which is close to its own summer peak. https://t.co/uD0hk69cJK

The past few days have brought an important new set of metrics to state dashboards: vaccine data! So far, we’ve learned of six states—ID, MI, OH, SD, TX and UT—that are posting the number of vaccines administered on their dashboards.

20 states provided no update: AK, CA, CT, DC, ID, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MP, NC, ND, NH, OH, RI, SC, SD, UT, VT.

7 other states made partial updates.

For our API users: Yesterday, we switched totalTestResults to use values from totalTestsViral instead of being calculated from positive+negative in 4 states: IL, ME, MI, and SD.

These switches caused the totalTestResults field to increase by ~325k (cumulatively). The increases were driven by MI and SD, because our old totalTestResults counted MI positives and SD positives and negatives in units of unique people instead of specimens.