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While numbers remain high, many states have appeared to have peaked and are seeing cases start to drop. I’ll go ahead and do my normal rankings but I’ll skip the graphs again just because everything is off the scale. I have to make some edits next week so I will play around with blowing up the y-axis scale to make some of the trends more obvious.
For the week that just ended, there were 5,397,920 newly reported cases. This was an increase over last week but only about an 11% increase. After three big weekly increases, we see the signs of a slowdown. As states like New York and Florida continue to see cases drop, it is possible that we’ll see a decline next week.
Looking at week over week change, the following states saw cases decline last week: Vermont, Maryland, New Jersey, DC, Rhode Island, New York, Florida, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, and West Virginia. Most of these are the places that first saw the big Omicron increases.
Here is the list using my ranking which looks at weekly change, monthly change and cases per million.
- Maine
- Vermont
- Maryland
- Michigan
- Idaho
- Montana
- Iowa
- Missouri
- Indiana
- Georgia
- New Hampshire
- Pennsylvania
- Nebraska
- Minnesota
- Wyoming
- West Virginia
- New Jersey
- Virginia
- DC
- Ohio
- Illinois
- Rhode Island
- Oregon
- New Mexico
- Kentucky
- Connecticut
- Florida
- New York
- Nevada
- Texas
- South Dakota
- Massachusetts
- Washington
- Alabama
- Mississippi
- Tennessee
- North Carolina
- Kansas
- Wisconsin
- Louisiana
- Oklahoma
- North Dakota
- Arizona
- Hawaii
- Delaware
- Alaska
- South Carolina
- Utah
- Arkansas
- Colorado
- California
I do think I will change the graphs next week because I expect we’ll have more states either at peak or just below and the scales need to be expanded to show that. Plus the drops in some states will be more obvious. I do expect to see the situation continue to improve in the coming weeks.
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