United States Covid-19: Daily Summary (January 8th)

News

As we said last week, given the speed of this new strand of the virus and its identification in several states throughout the country, we presumed it was already in our state and this info this morning confirms that fact.

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— Governor Ned Lamont (@GovNedLamont) January 7, 2021

Restrictions (NYT Compilation)

List of #Coronavirus-Related Restrictions in Every State – AARP (Update on Jan. 7th)https://t.co/JEDto3IgaO

— Macro Brief (@macroandfinance) January 8, 2021

Regional Data

Today’s #COVID19 indicators:

• 273 hospital admissions
• 3,870 new cases
• 9.21% positivity rate (7-day avg.)

Again, all these numbers are too high. With the vaccine and with our own actions, we can bring down these numbers together.

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 7, 2021

Today's update on the numbers:

Total COVID hospitalizations are at 8,548.

Of the 238,550 tests reported yesterday, 17,636 were positive (7.39% of total).

Sadly, there were 197 fatalities. pic.twitter.com/SnoP08S4k9

— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) January 7, 2021

NEW JERSEY #COVID19 UPDATE:
➡️6,314 new positive PCR tests
➡️510,839 total positive PCR tests
➡️1,560 new positive antigen tests
➡️53,967 total positive antigen tests
➡️123 new confirmed deaths
➡️17,587 total confirmed deaths
➡️2,059 probable deaths
https://t.co/JW1q8awGh7 pic.twitter.com/CAuZ2quphQ

— Governor Phil Murphy (@GovMurphy) January 7, 2021

For the states without active hospitalizations figures for May 15, four-week rolling new COVID hospitalizations per 10k residents are shown here. Alabama leads with 17.9 new hospitalizations per 10k residents over four weeks. pic.twitter.com/mZ2Efra3pc

— Exante Data (@ExanteData) January 8, 2021

National data (CDC

California, Florida, and Texas alone reported 80 thousand cases today. pic.twitter.com/NuCJYqmCC8

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 8, 2021

California alone is now reporting 380 deaths per day on average, including 583 just today. pic.twitter.com/bbkyj450lH

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 8, 2021

 

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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)