{"id":1629,"date":"2021-10-07T07:58:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2021-10-07T07:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T11:58:36","slug":"are-cases-declining-in-all-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Are cases declining in all states?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u>\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ve been relieved to see the US on the other side of the latest wave.\u00a0 Are all states experiencing declines in new cases?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0The US on the whole has witnessed fewer new cases each day since about mid-September.\u00a0 Of course, the US is a big country and national averages mask state and county-level variations.\u00a0 Currently, 12 states are experiencing an increase\u00a0in cases (range: 1% to 36% increase in cases over the last 14-days).\u00a0 The biggest increases\u00a0(>20%) are being experienced in five states: Minnesota, North Dakota, Maine, Michigan, and New Hampshire (<strong>Figure<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure. 14-day change in new cases in the contiguous US <\/strong>(map created by me using data from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2021\/us\/covid-cases.html\">NY Times COVID Tracker<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=723%2C498&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=1024%2C705&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=300%2C207&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=768%2C529&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=1536%2C1058&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?resize=2048%2C1411&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?w=1446&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/image-2.png?w=2169&amp;ssl=1 2169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:\u00a0I&#8217;ve been relieved to see the US on the other side of the latest wave.\u00a0 Are all states experiencing declines in new cases? Answer:\u00a0The US on the whole has witnessed fewer new cases each day since about mid-September.\u00a0 Of course, the US is a big country and national averages mask state and county-level variations.\u00a0 Currently, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,46],"tags":[238,239,236,240,237],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-states","category-trends","tag-maine","tag-michigan","tag-minnesota","tag-new-hampshire","tag-north-dakota","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}