This Is How Bad COVID Cases Are in Your State, Data Shows
Based on the rate of daily new coronavirus cases, here's how your state is faring.
For a few months, it felt as though the U.S. was quickly reaching the end of the coronavirus pandemic. Sadly, with lagging vaccination rates and the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant, it's only getting harder for the country to contain COVID. As of July 28, more than 163.5 million Americans have been fully vaccinated, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). But while that number represents over 49 percent of the country, some states are nowhere near that level of protection, and many are seeing significant surges in case numbers. 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 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; or red ("active or imminent outbreak") for 25 to 74 cases per 100,000 people. As of July 28, nine states are red, with the rest divided between orange and yellow. As the Delta variant continues to spread, 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.
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50
South Dakota
3.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
49
New Hampshire
3.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
48
Vermont
3.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
47
Maine
4.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
46
Maryland
4.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
45
Pennsylvania
4.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
44
North Dakota
4.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
43
Michigan
5.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
42
Minnesota
6.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
41
Ohio
6.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
40
Delaware
7.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
39
Connecticut
7.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
38
Iowa
7.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
37
Massachusetts
7.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
36
Virginia
8.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
35
New Jersey
8.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
34
West Virginia
8.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
33
Wisconsin
8.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
32
New York
8.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
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Rhode Island
8.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
30
Nebraska
9.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (yellow)
29
Montana
10.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
28
Indiana
11.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
27
Colorado
11.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
26
New Mexico
11.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
25
Illinois
11.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
24
Oregon
12.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
23
Idaho
13.6 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
22
Hawaii
13.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
21
Washington
14.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
20
North Carolina
16.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
19
Arizona
18.9 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
18
California
19.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
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17
Wyoming
19.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
16
Kentucky
20.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
15
Tennessee
20.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
14
Utah
20.4 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
13
South Carolina
21.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
12
Georgia
21.5 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
11
Kansas
21.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
10
Texas
22.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (orange)
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9
Alaska
28.8 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
8
Nevada
29.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
7
Oklahoma
30.3 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
6
Alabama
36.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
5
Missouri
39.7 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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4
Mississippi
40.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
3
Arkansas
52.1 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
2
Florida
58.2 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
1
Louisiana
73.0 daily new cases per 100,000 people (red)
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