Covid in the U.S.

Covid in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count By The New York TimesUpdated November 15, 2020, 12:05 A.M. E.T. Leer en español World | U.S.A. Colleges 7-day average Total reported On Nov. 14 14-day change Cases 10.9 million 159,021 +80% Deaths 245,460 1,210 +38% Hospitalized 69,455 +43% At least 1,210 new coronavirus deaths and 159,021 new cases were reported in the United States on Nov. 14. Over the past week, there has been an average of 145,712 cases per day, an increase of 80 percent from the average two weeks earlier. As of Sunday morning, more than 10,977,600 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 245,400 have died, according to a New York Times database. Average daily cases per 100,000 people in past week Few or no cases Double-click to zoom into the map. Sources: State and local health agencies. Population and demographic data from Census Bureau. The hot spots map shows the share of population with a new reported case over the last week. Parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile are not shaded. Data for Rhode Island is shown at the state level because county level data is infrequently reported. For total cases and deaths: The map shows the known locations of coronavirus cases by county. Circles are sized by the number of people there who have tested positive or have a probable case of the virus, which may differ from where they contracted the illness. For per capita: Parts of a county with a population density lower than 10 people per square mile are not shaded. Case numbers are spiking across most of the United States, leading to dire warnings about full hospitals, exhausted health care workers and potential lockdowns. As conditions worsened and winter approached, the mayors of Chicago and St. Louis imposed stricter limits on gatherings. In Oregon and New Mexico, governors ordered residents to stay at home. And in both rural counties and major cities, infections continued rising to fearsome new levels with no end in sight. Which place is facing the most severe outbreak? It depends how you measure. Deaths, though still well below their peak spring levels, averaged more than 1,000 per day in mid November. Where new cases are higher and staying high These states have had the highest growth in newly reported deaths over the last 14 days. Deaths tend to rise a few weeks after a rise in infections, as there is typically a delay between when people are infected, when they die and when deaths are reported. Some deaths reported in the last two weeks may have occurred much earlier because of these delays. A year that started out normal — with packed sports arenas, busy airports and handshake-heavy political campaigning — quickly became defined by the pandemic. In late February, there were just a few dozen known cases in the United States, most of them linked to travel. But by summer, the virus had torn through every state, infecting more people than the combined populations of Connecticut and Oklahoma. And in the fall, the national death toll exceeded 240,000, more than the population of Richmond, Va. American life has been fundamentally reordered because of the virus. Concerts, parades and high school basketball games continue to be called off. Countless people have found themselves jobless and struggling to afford housing. Many schools and colleges have held few or no in-person classes this fall. More than 252,000 cases have been linked to colleges and universities over the course of the pandemic. Thousands more cases have been identified in elementary, middle and high schools. The New York Times has found that official tallies in the United States and in more than a dozen other countries have undercounted deaths during the coronavirus outbreak because of limited testing availability. The New York Times is engaged in a comprehensive effort to track information on every coronavirus case in the United States, collecting information from federal, state and local officials around the clock. The numbers in this article are being updated several times a day based on the latest information our journalists are gathering from around the country. The Times has made that data public in hopes of helping researchers and policymakers as they seek to slow the pandemic and prevent future ones. The Times’s data collection for this page is based on reports from state and local health agencies, a process that is unchanged by the Trump administration's requirement that hospitals bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington. The places hit hardest The coronavirus has moved across the country in distinct phases, devastating one region, then another. The Northeast experienced the worst this spring, as temporary morgues were deployed in New York City. Over the summer, cases spiked across the Sun Belt, prompting many states to tighten restrictions just weeks after reopening. By fall, the virus was filling rural hospitals in the Midwest and West as it devastated communities that had for months avoided the pandemic’s worst. More than 1 million cases have been identified in California. The nation’s most populous places have all suffered tremendously. In Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, more than 5,800 people have died. In Los Angeles County, Calif., more than 330,000 people have had the virus, more than in most states. And in New York City, about one of every 352 residents has died. Because outbreaks in group settings where large numbers of people are in close quarters have been a major driver of the pandemic, The Times has paid special attention to cases in nursing homes, food processing plants, correctional facilities and colleges. Information on these cases comes directly from official releases by governments, companies and institutions. The tables below show cases that have been identified since the beginning of the pandemic, and with the exception of the table for colleges and universities, only show groups of cases where 50 or more are related to a specific site. Cases at colleges and universities Some universities have decided to hold most or all classes online, but many others have reopened their campuses, often with extensive procedures and rules governing behavior and testing. In August and September, as the fall term began, college towns saw some of the highest per capita case growth in the country. More than 252,000 cases among students and employees at more than 1,600 institutions have been reported over the course of the pandemic, according to a Times database. At least 80 deaths have been reported, many of them in the spring, and most of them among employees, not students. But already this fall, a football player at California University of Pennsylvania and a sophomore at Appalachian State have died after contracting the virus.