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Mario Tama / Getty A Sign of Just How Terrible the Winter’s Surge Was
In November, COVID-19 levels shot past the worst of the summer’s surge. Now they’re back below that threshold.
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Glen Stubbe / Star Tribune / Getty A Single Day With Fewer Than 100,000 Cases of COVID-19
The case count in the U.S. hadn’t dipped that low since November.
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Zack Wittman / Bloomberg / Getty Fewer Americans Are Getting COVID-19 Tests
Our best coronavirus tracking tool is still underused.
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Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times / Getty The Deadliest Month Yet
January saw one-fifth of all American COVID-19 deaths to date.
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Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Hospitalizations Are Down
And the seven-day average of COVID-19 cases has dropped significantly too.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic A Tragic Beginning to a Presidency
On the eve of Biden’s inauguration, the pandemic’s toll has reached nearly 24 million cases and 400,000 deaths.
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Getty / The Atlantic The Black Hole in America’s COVID-19 Data
States know very little about the results from rapid coronavirus tests.
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PATRICK T. FALLON / AFP / Getty The Winter Surge Is Fracturing
Hospitalizations are down across the Midwest, but a handful of states are showing worrisome signs.
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Go Nakamura / Getty December Is Now the Deadliest Month of the Pandemic
With days left to go in the month, the number of deaths reported passed April’s high.
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Apu Gomes / AFP / Getty California Has Lost Control
The Golden State was in better shape than most of the country. Now the outbreak there is going from bad to worse.
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WILLIAM WIDMER / The New York Times / … The Terrible Déjà Vu of COVID-19’s Winter Surge
The coronavirus is now resurgent in some of the states hardest hit in the spring and summer.
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Alex Edelman / AFP / Getty Images The Pandemic’s Final Surge Will Be Brutal
Over the weekend, the seven-day average of COVID-19 deaths passed the spring’s peak.
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Alex Edelman / Getty America Is Careening Toward a Pandemic Nightmare Scenario
On Wednesday, the United States broke 100,000 coronavirus hospitalizations for the first time ever.
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Getty / The Atlantic Pandemic Data Are About to Go Sideways
States are likely to report fewer coronavirus cases, but not because things are getting better.
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Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic How Many Americans Are About to Die?
A new analysis shows that the country is on track to pass spring’s grimmest record.
