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Over the past few weeks, we’ve noticed that newsrooms of all sizes—and even some government agencies—have fallen into some of the data potholes that we’ve become familiar with in our

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.1 million tests, 103k cases, and 57k people currently hospitalized with COVID-19. The death toll was 462. This is the largest number of

Our weekly update is published. The United States set a new weekly record for reported cases, breaking 500K for the first time in the pandemic. We see no evidence that

Our daily update is published. States reported 894k tests, 47k cases, and 669 deaths. 36k people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, the highest count since late-August. Case counts are increasing

You’ve probably heard about test positivity—a powerful metric that can reveal the percentage of COVID-19 tests coming back positive. This metric comes with some pretty big caveats. Let’s break them

Our daily update is published. States reported 658k tests, 56k cases, and 1,485 deaths. The number of currently hospitalized COVID-19 patients continues to fall. There are many data issues, which

Our daily update is published. States reported 798k tests and 65k new cases of COVID-19. States reported 1,037 deaths today, which was our fifth day in a row of more

Our updates is published. States reported a record number of tests (831k) and cases (71k). At 977, the reported death count is the highest since May 29. Patients hospitalized with

Our daily update is published. At 760k, this was the second-highest number of tests on record. States reported ~63k new cases today, along with 736 deaths. Current hospitalizations rose by

Our daily update is published. New records for cases, and a top-5 day for tests. Patients currently hospitalized jumped to over 43,000, about the levels of mid-May. States reported more

Our daily update is published. Some of the numbers are coming back up after the dip over the holiday weekend. States reported about 52K new cases today. 653K new tests

Our daily update is published. States reported over 57K new cases today — another record day for cases, the third this week.We’re at 721K new tests today, a huge jump