This Is How Bad COVID Still Is in Your State
Based on the rate of daily new coronavirus cases, here's how your state is faring.

There was a brief period in 2021 when it felt as though we were reaching the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Sadly, slowing vaccination rates and the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant made containment a struggle. Then, as we began to glimpse normalcy again, Omicron arrived—even more infectious than Delta, and more likely to cause breakthrough COVID—and with it, a new surge. Cases are thankfully once again on a downward trajectory, but the numbers look very different state to state, and the virus continues to spread across the U.S. So, how bad are COVID cases still in your state?
There are countless ways to measure the level of outbreak in any particular area. The experts at COVID Act Now use several categories to determine each state's level of vulnerability: the daily new case rate, positive test rate, infection rate, hospitalizations, and percentage of the population vaccinated. To keep things simple, we are focusing on the rate of daily new cases per 100,000 people, which is one of the most effective ways to capture the state of the COVID outbreak in a given area. Using a color-coded system, COVID Act Now marks a state as green if it's "on track to contain COVID," meaning there is less than 1 new case per 100,000 people, but there are not currently any states that meet this limit. At this time there are also no states designated yellow, meaning "slow disease growth," with a rate of 1 to 9 cases per 100,000 people.
Instead, states' daily new case rates are marked orange ("at risk of outbreak") for 10 to 24 cases per 100,000 people; red ("active or imminent outbreak") for 25 to 74 cases per 100,000 people; or dark red ("severe outbreak") for 75 or more cases per 100,000 people. As of Feb. 11, a staggering 32 states are red and 17 more are dark red. Only one is orange. (Idaho is not listed on COVID Act Now's site, but New York Times data shows its cases per 100,000 and puts it in the dark red category.) With every U.S. state at an elevated risk level, total containment remains a distant prospect. From fewest to most daily new coronavirus cases, here's how your state is faring.
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50
Maryland

18.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
49
New Jersey

26.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
48
Connecticut

27.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
47
Ohio

29.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
46
New York

31.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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45
Nebraska

39.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
44
Indiana

40.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
43
Massachusetts

41.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
42
Delaware

41.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
41
Nevada

42.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
40
South Dakota

44.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
39
Illinois

44.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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38
Georgia

46.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
37
Pennsylvania

47.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
36
Michigan

48.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
35
Wisconsin

48.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
34
Colorado

50.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
33
Iowa

53.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
32
Oklahoma

54.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
31
Vermont

55.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
30
Virginia

55.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
29
Arkansas

56.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
28
Missouri

57.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
27
Rhode Island

57.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
26
Texas

59.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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25
Utah

60.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
24
Hawaii

63.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
23
Alabama

63.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
22
Maine

65.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
21
Kansas

65.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
20
Washington

68.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
19
Louisiana

68.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
18
California

74.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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17
New Hampshire

75.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
16
Wyoming

76.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
15
Oregon

76.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
14
Minnesota

78.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
13
New Mexico

80.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
12
North Carolina

82.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
11
South Carolina

85.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
10
Arizona

87.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
9
Florida

88.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
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8
North Dakota

102.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
7
Idaho

104.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
6
Kentucky

105.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
5
Tennessee

123.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
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4
West Virginia

124.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
3
Montana

128.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
2
Mississippi

146.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
1
Alaska

177.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (dark red)
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