Our daily update is published. States reported 603k completed tests today, the second day in a row over 600k tests.

For details, see: http://covidtracking.com 

The South, as a whole, looks likely to cross over the 10% positive rate on the 200k+ tests reported per day in the region.

While the 7-day positive rate average has not crossed 10%... Today, 26,069 of the 219,280 tests reported in the South came back positive. That's 12%.

Nationally, more than 44k new cases were reported today. That's the third straight record day.

The big story among states today is Florida, which reported almost 9000 new cases.

18% of the tests reported today by the state were positive.

Florida *still* doesn't report the number of people currently hospitalized.

This chart looks at per-capita testing rates and the percent positive. Arizona is all by itself, but South Carolina and Florida are moving rightward.

Here's a map of the number of new cases reported today. Note that Ohio and Alabama both almost broke 1,000.

States reported 619 deaths.

The 7-day average fell to 556.