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 more than 1,500 to 55,509.

The recent rise in deaths is not equally distributed across the US. Where cases have risen most rapidly, deaths have followed suit.

Note: the West’s death number is impacted by Washington State removing 39 deaths from their counts that they determined were not from COVID-19.

We generally report deaths on the day the state reports them. Some states also provide data about the date of death. We compared the two to see how well the data matches up. And it does, at least for Florida, where this data is available.

Six states saw a rise of over 100 (FL, CA, TX, AZ, GA, TN) in their number of currently hospitalized COVID-19 patients. All six set new record highs for their states.

18 states reported over 900 new cases today. Nevada and Texas hit new highs.

Arizona’s data is muddled. Testing capacity is maxed, which affects the case count, as you can see by the similarity in the shape of those charts. But looking at other metrics, today the state reported record hospitalizations and its 2nd-highest number of deaths.

As always, you can visit https://covidtracking.com/about  to see who produces this data and how we do it.

Reminder to our data users that we updated our API field descriptions: https://covidtracking.com/data/api