COVID-19 Update

State of the virus as of 09-08-2022

• Known coronavirus cases have fallen significantly in recent weeks, with the national average falling below 90,000 cases per day just before Labor Day.
• The holiday has skewed current figures somewhat, since many states reported delayed or incomplete data in the aftermath of the long weekend. Still, case counts are in far better shape today than a month ago, when nearly 120,000 cases were announced each day.
• Cases have decreased over the past two weeks in all but a handful of states. In the Northwest, Washington and Oregon have both seen cases fall by more than 20 percent.
• Hospitalizations have also seen sustained improvement. Fewer than 35,000 people are currently in American hospitals with the coronavirus each day, a decrease of 13 percent over the past two weeks.
• Data on new virus deaths is particularly volatile this week due to holiday reporting disruptions. Still, deaths today are far lower than they were a year ago, when the Delta variant was causing more than 1,500 deaths per day.