This Is How Bad COVID Still Is in Your State, Data Shows

For a few months earlier in 2021, it felt as though we were reaching the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Sadly, with low vaccination rates and the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant, it's been a challenge for the U.S. to contain the virus. As of Sept. 23, over 182 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But while that number represents 55 percent of the country, some states are nowhere near that level of protection, and many are still seeing significant surges in case numbers. Even with numbers slowly going down overall, the virus continues to spread. So, how bad are COVID cases 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, 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. There are also currently 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 Sept. 23, a staggering 42 states are red and five more are dark red. The remaining three are orange. As the Delta variant continues to spread, every U.S. state remains at an elevated risk level, making total containment a distant prospect. From fewest to most daily new coronavirus cases, here's how your state is faring.

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19.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)

20.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)

22.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)

25.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

26.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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

27.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

28.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

30.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

32.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

32.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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32.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

32.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

33.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

33.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

33.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

34.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

35.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

35.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

37.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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38.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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

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

41.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

42.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

42.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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45.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

45.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

46.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

46.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

46.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

46.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

47.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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48.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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

55.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

57.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

57.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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

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58.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

62.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

66.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

67.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

71.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

73.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)

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

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

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

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

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

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