This Is How Bad the COVID Outbreak Is Getting in Your State, Data Shows

For several weeks, it felt as though the U.S. was quickly reaching the end of the coronavirus pandemic. But health officials who have been sounding the alarm about another COVID surge are sadly starting to see their predictions pan out. On March 29, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, even said she's scared about the "impending doom" of COVID. After a substantial period of new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths trending downward, that trajectory has stalled, with some states seeing significant spikes and numbers still too high across the U.S. Even with more than 52 million Americans fully vaccinated against COVID, according to March 29 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), hundreds of millions more continue to wait their turn. It's clear the COVID crisis remains a problem throughout the U.S., but how bad are things 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 overall level of risk: the daily new case rate, positive test rate, infection rate, ICU capacity, 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 determine 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.

Instead, states' daily new case rates are marked yellow ("slow disease growth") for 1 to 9 cases per 100,000 people; 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 March 29, nine states are red, and the majority is now orange. With case numbers starting to rise again, every U.S. state remains at an elevated risk level, making total containment a somewhat distant prospect.

From fewest to most daily new coronavirus cases, here's how your state is faring. And for more COVID news, check out The Strange New COVID Vaccine Side Effect That's Confusing Even Doctors.

6.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)

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

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

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

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

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

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