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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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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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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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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