{"id":909,"date":"2020-12-07T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=909"},"modified":"2020-12-07T10:03:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:03:59","slug":"how-are-trends-for-other-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"How are trends for other states?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Question:<\/u>&nbsp;<\/strong>Following yesterday&#8217;s post, how are trends in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Answer:<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;Also not good.&nbsp; Charts for those four states are below.&nbsp; I made them thanks to data compiled by <a href=\"http:\/\/covidtracking.com\">covidtracking.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><strong>Figure 1. Kentucky: <\/strong>Daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are at their highest ever (7-day rolling average 3,387 cases\/day, 1,764 currently hospitalized, 25 deaths\/day).&nbsp; Test positivity is quickly rising (averaging 7.1% this last week).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"581\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-6.png?resize=723%2C581&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-910\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-6.png?w=896&amp;ssl=1 896w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-6.png?resize=300%2C241&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-6.png?resize=768%2C617&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 2. Tennessee: <\/strong>Daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are at their highest ever (7-day rolling average of 4,868 cases\/day, 2,691 hospitalized, and 56 deaths\/day).\u00a0 Test positivity is extremely high at 17% and testing has been very slow to increase.\u00a0 For example, Kentucky averages the same number of weekly tests as Tennessee, but has only 65% the population of Tennessee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-7.png?resize=723%2C563&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-7.png?w=924&amp;ssl=1 924w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-7.png?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-7.png?resize=768%2C598&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 3. Texas: <\/strong>Daily cases are the highest ever (7-day rolling average 13,150).&nbsp; Hospitalizations and deaths are quickly rising, but have not yet reached the peaks of earlier this summer (7-day rolling average 8,974 hospitalized, 177 deaths\/day).&nbsp; Test positivity is extremely high at 14%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"573\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-8.png?resize=723%2C573&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-8.png?w=908&amp;ssl=1 908w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-8.png?resize=300%2C238&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-8.png?resize=768%2C609&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Figure 4. Virginia: <\/strong>Cases and hospitalizations are at their highest ever (7-day rolling average of 2,730 cases\/day and 1,829 currently hospitalized).&nbsp; Daily deaths are increasing (7-day rolling average of 20 deaths\/day), though they are not yet as high as earlier in the pandemic.&nbsp; Test positivity is increasing (7-day rolling average of 10.5%) and testing has been slow to increase.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"561\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-9.png?resize=723%2C561&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-9.png?w=928&amp;ssl=1 928w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-9.png?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-9.png?resize=768%2C596&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question:&nbsp;Following yesterday&#8217;s post, how are trends in Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia? Answer:&nbsp;Also not good.&nbsp; Charts for those four states are below.&nbsp; I made them thanks to data compiled by covidtracking.com. Figure 1. Kentucky: Daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are at their highest ever (7-day rolling average 3,387 cases\/day, 1,764 currently hospitalized, 25 deaths\/day).&nbsp; Test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":910,"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":[52,54,51,56],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-states","category-trends","tag-kentucky","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-virginia","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/covidqanda.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/image-6.png?fit=896%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covidqanda.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}