New infections of covid-19 in the United States registered a decrease of 12% last week, but with significant increases in some states, according to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Source: EFE
Last week there was a daily average of 100,733 cases of covid-19 in the United States, according to the CDC report.
At the same time, the daily average of deaths from covid-19 has decreased 20% and hospitalizations have dropped 4%.
The covid-19 pandemic, declared at the beginning of 2020, has had at least 86.3 million confirmed cases in this country and caused the death of at least 1.01 million people.
New cases peaked this year with a weekly average of more than 800,000 infections in mid-January, declined markedly through mid-March, and have been slowly rising ever since, with occasional dips like the one last week, according to the CDC. .
The increase in cases has been uneven in different regions of the country, with an average daily rate of 49 cases per 100,000 residents in the Northeast, 31 per 100,000 in the Midwest, 28 per 100,000 in the West and 21 per 100,000 in the South.
In Wyoming the daily average of new cases rose 99%, in Alabama 30%, in New Jersey 27%, in Mississippi 20%, in North Dakota 17%, in Oklahoma 16%, in Arkansas 13% and in Arizona 11%
Average daily deaths from COVID-19 increased 233% in Tennessee, 200% in Virginia, 100% in Mississippi, and 43% in Georgia.
In Florida, while new cases and hospitalizations were flat, Covid-19 deaths were up 45%.
At the same time, in California, new cases are down 12%, deaths are down 3%, and hospitalizations are up 1%.
Among the counties with the highest average daily rates of cases per 100,000 residents are Washakie, with 183, and Sheridan with 151, both in the state of Wyoming.
Miami-Dade County in South Florida shows an average daily rate of 86 cases per 100,000 people, with McKinley County in New Mexico close behind with 84.
