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ANGELA WEISS / AFP / Getty The Clearest Sign the Pandemic Could Get Worse
Another coronavirus outbreak is unfolding in Michigan.
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Al Seib / Los Angeles Times / Getty … The Pandemic’s Future Hangs in Suspense
A new surge has not yet shown up in the case numbers, but cases could be declining at a slower rate.
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Bloomberg / Getty / The Atlantic The Winter Surge Is Melting Away
Coronavirus cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all fell for the fourth consecutive week.
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Inland Valley Daily Bulletin / Getty / The … The Good News of COVID-19 Is Sticking, for Now
Every major pandemic indicator has been falling for weeks.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Deadly Winter Surge Is Rapidly Easing
Cases are down 57 percent from the country’s all-time peak in early January, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is in Tenuous Retreat
New COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all dropped this week.
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Getty / The Atlantic COVID-19 Deaths Are Still Rising
Hospitalizations are falling, but they are still higher than at any point before this current surge.
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Getty / The Atlantic Pandemic Numbers Are (Finally) Tiptoeing in the Right Direction
The United States remains in a very alarming place, but COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths all fell in the past seven days.
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San Francisco Chronicle / Getty / The Atlantic The Worst Week for Deaths Since the Pandemic Began
States reported 23,259 COVID-19 deaths this week, and the number of people hospitalized with the disease is still rising.
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Mario Tama / Getty / The Atlantic The Most Reliable Pandemic Number Keeps Getting Worse
America reported a record number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the first week of 2021.
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Go Nakamura / Getty The Pandemic Metric to Trust Right Now
Death and case counts are unreliable during the holidays, but hospitalizations are hitting new records in the South and West.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is Crashing Through the South and the West
Five states—Arizona, California, Florida, Tennessee, and Texas—account for 40 percent of all new cases reported in the past seven days.
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Micah Green / Getty / Katie Martin / … A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst
For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
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Paul Bersebach / Getty / The Atlantic This Is Only Going to Get Worse
The United States is entering a long, dark period, and the pandemic is already breaking records from the spring.
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Victor J. Blue / The New York Times … The Vaccine Is Not Coming Soon Enough for Nursing Homes
COVID-19 deaths in long-term-care facilities jumped 27 percent last week.
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Go Nakamura / Getty / The Atlantic Pandemic Data Are Stalling Out
Thanksgiving has skewed reporting of COVID-19 cases and deaths, but one metric is still clear: Hospitalizations keep rising.
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Drew Angerer / Getty / The Atlantic A Tragic Beginning to the Holiday Season
COVID-19 hospitalizations have been at a record high for more than two weeks, and daily deaths have exceeded 2,000 for the first time since May.
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Mohd Rasfean / Getty / The Atlantic The Final Pandemic Surge Is Crashing Over America
For the first time, the U.S. recorded 1 million COVID-19 cases in one week.
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COVID Tracking Project / NIAID / The Atlantic The Pandemic Is in Uncharted Territory
The fall surge is rewriting the coronavirus record books across America. And the numbers are still climbing.
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MARK FELIX / AFP / Getty The Third Coronavirus Surge Has Arrived
This week’s COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations make clear that the U.S. is once again sinking deeper into the pandemic.
