United States Covid-19: Daily Summary (February 20th)
News
President Biden that he was “confident” the U.S. would surpass his goal of putting 100 million coronavirus vaccine shots into American arms during his first 100 days, and predicted that the nation would be “approaching normalcy by the end of this year" https://t.co/dfziFBh88d
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) February 20, 2021
Pfizer says it will double vaccine supply from 5M doses/week to 10M in the next few weeks, @rileyraygriffin reports.
This more or less confirms what we wrote yesterday about the coming increase that will significantly boost US vaccine numbers. https://t.co/jKV2LdTUyJ
— Drew Armstrong (@ArmstrongDrew) February 19, 2021
Restrictions
NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that restaurants in New York City could increase their capacity to 35%. https://t.co/u1gTtUkaRf
— Fox5NY (@fox5ny) February 20, 2021
Regional Data
Take a look at our latest #COVID19 indicators:
• 251 new hospitalizations
• 3,246 new cases
• 7.29% positivity rate (7-day avg.)Every day we’re making progress, but we could be doing so much more if we had the vaccine supply we need.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) February 19, 2021
Today's update on the numbers:
Total COVID hospitalizations are at 6,155.
Of the 249,248 tests reported yesterday, 8,710 were positive (3.49% of total).
Sadly, there were 116 fatalities. pic.twitter.com/rR9PbfV4Oy
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) February 19, 2021
As of last night:
➡️2,202 patients in our hospitals
➡️443 patients in our ICUs
➡️300 ventilators in use
➡️323 live patients discharged
➡️216 COVID-positive patients admitted
➡️33 in-hospital deaths pic.twitter.com/Paa8pV3lco— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) February 19, 2021
California COVID-19, By The Numbers:
Confirmed cases to date: 3,428,518
Note: Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayedMore information at https://t.co/TLLUGwPGY7. pic.twitter.com/YekUEp84uD
— CA Public Health (@CAPublicHealth) February 19, 2021
This chart shows active COVID hospitalizations, indexed to facilitate comparison across US states. The 5 largest states with most elevated levels vs mid-May baseline are TX, NC, GA, AZ & TN. Also, NY and the median across states are included for reference. pic.twitter.com/3uNCiISphL
— Exante Data (@ExanteData) February 20, 2021
National data (CDC)
COVID-19 hospitalizations are now under 60k for the first time since November 9, bringing us back down to the peak levels of hospitalizations we saw in the spring and summer surges. pic.twitter.com/zK04ZrtWtc
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) February 20, 2021
In our weekly update, we warned that Texas numbers could be erratic for some time because of the storms and power outages. We recommend keeping an eye on hospitalizations as the sturdiest metric there. https://t.co/vjwxr5ABXs pic.twitter.com/pF3fwUM4xs
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) February 20, 2021
VACCINE DATA UPDATE (Feb. 19)
1.4M doses today; 7-day avg=1.49M/day
US: 60.5M doses total❄️⚡️We continue to see BIG impact from the storms.
below on a *major* methodological change at CDC that affects our totals tonighthttps://t.co/5Of3UY74wf pic.twitter.com/VevBV0uOQQ
— Drew Armstrong (@ArmstrongDrew) February 20, 2021
Daily New Confirmed Cases
Daily New Confirmed Cases (7-day moving average)
Daily New Tests (7-day moving average)
Positivity Rates (7-day moving average)
Daily New Confirmed Deaths (7-day moving average)
Cumulative Vaccination Doses Administrated