New cases
Total Cases
495,249
Deaths
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Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
More than 18,000 people with the coronavirus have now died in the
United States, according to a New York Times database. The country’s
death toll, which has more than doubled over the last week, is now
increasing by nearly 2,000 most days.
Confirmed cases in the United States
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Note: The map shows the known locations of
coronavirus cases by county. For total cases and deaths: Circles are
sized by the number of people there who have tested positive, which may
differ from where they contracted the illness. For per capita: Parts of a
county with a population density of less than 10 people per square mile
are not shaded. Sources: State and local health agencies and hospitals.
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The increase in deaths comes as governors across the country seek
scarce ventilators and as police officers issue citations to residents
who ignore orders to stay home. With the outbreak expected to persist,
Americans have been urged to wear face coverings
in public, convention centers have been converted into makeshift
medical centers and many churches have called off plans to gather on
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As of Friday evening, at least 495,249 people across every state, plus
Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for
the virus, according to a New York Times database.
The outbreak in this country, which now has the highest number of known
cases in the world, looks vastly different than it did a month or even a
week ago. At the start of March, with extremely limited testing
available, only 70 cases had been reported in the United States, most of
them tied to overseas travel. In recent days, cases and deaths have
grown rapidly. More than 50 additional deaths were announced Friday in
Indiana, along with thousands of new infections in New Jersey.
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Cases and deaths by state and county
| Cases | Per 100,000 People | Deaths | Per 100,000 People |
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| + New York MAP » | 170,512 | 869 | 7,844 | 40 |
Feb. 26
Apr. 9
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| + New Jersey MAP » | 54,588 | 615 | 1,932 | 22 |  |
| + Michigan MAP » | 22,646 | 227 | 1,280 | 13 |  |
| + California MAP » | 21,150 | 54 | 582 | 1 |  |
| + Massachusetts MAP » | 20,974 | 307 | 599 | 9 |  |
| + Pennsylvania MAP » | 20,043 | 157 | 419 | 3 |  |
| + Louisiana MAP » | 19,253 | 413 | 755 | 16 |  |
| + Florida MAP » | 17,960 | 87 | 418 | 2 |  |
| + Illinois MAP » | 17,887 | 140 | 608 | 5 |  |
| + Texas MAP » | 11,930 | 43 | 240 | <1 b=""> |  |
Notes: Growth rate shows how frequently
the number of cases has doubled over the previous seven days. Growth
rate not shown for counties with less than 20 cases.
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As the number of known cases reached into the hundreds, then the
thousands, then the hundreds of thousands, life all over the country has
changed in profound ways. Malls, salons and dine-in restaurants have
been forced to close or risk police action. The Kentucky Derby, the Indy
500 and baseball’s Opening Day were postponed. Some states have told
people arriving from elsewhere to quarantine themselves. Others have
warned that the pause on communal life will likely last weeks more, and
that the eventual return to work and school will come in stages.
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Times is engaged in a comprehensive effort to track the
details of 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.
New York: 170,000 cases have been identified.
No state has been hit harder than New York, which accounts for nearly
half the country’s coronavirus-related deaths and where new cases
continue to be reported each day by the thousands. With hospitals
stretched thin and medical equipment in short supply, the state has
turned to Oregon and China for emergency shipments of ventilators.
State health officials anticipated particularly heavy mortality rates
this week, and more than 700 additional deaths were announced Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. “Behind every one of those numbers is an
individual, is a family, is a mother, is a father, is a brother, is a
sister,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a news conference Tuesday. “So, a
lot of pain again today."
People with the virus have died in more than 20 New York counties,
including more than 360 victims each in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester
Counties. But New York City has faced the worst, with thousands of known
cases in each borough. The city’s mayor, Bill de Blasio, compared the
pandemic to “many Katrinas.” A Manhattan convention center began
accepting patients. A Navy hospital ship was docked in the city. Field
hospitals were set up in Central Park and at a cathedral.
And as in many other cities, black people in New York were being infected at disproportionately high rates.
“The truth is that in so many ways the negative effects of coronavirus,
the pain it’s causing, the death it’s causing, tracks with other
profound health care disparities that we have seen for years and
decades,” Mr. de Blasio said.
Though New York has had by far the most cases, other Northeastern
states have also seen their case totals increase rapidly. New Jersey has
the second-highest number of known cases in the country. In
Massachusetts, more than 2,000 new cases and 70 new deaths were
announced on Thursday. In Connecticut, at least 380 people have died.
In America’s nursing homes, outbreaks grow.
Across the country, a pattern has played out with tragic consistency:
Someone gets sick in a nursing home. Soon, several residents and
employees have the coronavirus. The New York Times has identified more
than 3,084 cases of the coronavirus and at least 292 deaths associated
with nursing homes or long-term care facilities across the nation.
Older people and those with underlying health problems are most
vulnerable to Covid-19, making the consequences of a nursing home
outbreak especially devastating. At least 43 deaths have been linked to
an outbreak at the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland, Wash. Many of
the victims were in their 80s or 90s. At least 35 people have died from
the virus at the Canterbury Rehabilitation & Healthcare Center, a
nursing facility in Richmond, Va.
In New Orleans and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., multiple deaths have been
tied to senior centers. In Wisconsin, the National Guard was sent to a
long-term care facility where patients died. Similar outbreaks have been
reported in Georgia, in California and in Anderson, Ind., where
officials said this week that 11 residents had died. The Times has
identified more than 170 long-term care facilities with at least two
cases of the virus.
“This disease creates the potential for a perfect storm in a long-term
care facility — large groups of vulnerable people living together and a
highly transmissible virus that may not cause symptoms in those who care
for them,” said Dr. Daniel Rusyniak, the chief medical officer for
Indiana’s state social services agency.
Though many of the first coronavirus cases in the United States were
tied to overseas travel, localized outbreaks have become increasingly
common. New clusters in nursing homes and other settings, including a
meatpacking plant in Iowa and a shipyard in Virginia, are emerging each
day. Public health officials often are unable to identify how people are
becoming ill. The table below shows known cases for which Times
journalists have been able to identify how the virus was contracted or a
connection to other cases.
| Cases Connected To | Cases |
|---|---|
| Metron long-term care; Cedar Springs, Mich. | 36 |
| United States Penitentiary; Atlanta | 14 |
| Peconic Landing long-term care; Greenport, N.Y. | 34 |
| Cook County Jail; Chicago | 448 |
| Healthcare rehabilitation/assisted living facility; Harris county, Texas | 34 |
| Parnall Correctional Facility; Jackson, Mich. | 194 |
| Shuksan Healthcare Center; Bellingham, Wash. | 32 |
| Travel within the U.S. | 190 |
| Signature HealthCARE of Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, N.C. | 31 |
| Stateville Correctional Center; Crest Hill, Ill. | 131 |
The growth in cases of unknown origin has signaled to public health
officials that Americans are being exposed to the virus at work, at
shopping centers and in travel hubs, prompting calls for people to stay
home. Among recent deaths: Nathel Burtley, the first black person to
serve as schools superintendent in Flint, Mich.; Mario Araujo, a Chicago firefighter; and the musician John Prine.
Midwestern cities face new onslaught
Urban centers across much of the Midwest, largely spared by the first
weeks of the virus’s spread in America, have faced rising infection
numbers and sobering death totals in recent days.
In Detroit, more than 6,000 cases have been identified and at least 275
people have died. More than 100 deaths have been tied to the virus in
the county that includes Indianapolis. At least 65 deaths and 1,400
cases have been reported in Milwaukee County, Wis. And in Chicago, where
an infant is among at least 198 people who have died, there are more
than 6,600 cases, ventilators might soon run out and a lakefront
convention center has been prepared to accept patients if hospitals
reach capacity.
“This is a facility that we stood up because the human population is
susceptible to this virus at a scale never before seen in our
lifetimes,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker of Illinois said recently after touring
the convention center hospital.
Police departments face an invisible threat
While workers in many industries have stopped going to the office,
police officers have continued their daily patrols, even in the
hardest-hit areas.
As the outbreak has grown, so, too, has the number of officers infected
with the coronavirus in cities like Detroit, where at least two police
employees have died from the virus, many more have been infected and
others have been told to self-isolate.
“Some have been quarantined and want to come back to work,” Chief James
Craig of the Detroit police said about his officers recently, a few
days before he also tested positive for the virus. “These are the same
people, let’s not forget, who when they are going to a dangerous
situation like shots being fired, they’re running toward the danger.
This is no different.”
The effect on law enforcement officers has been widespread. In Aurora, Ill., the police chief was infected with the virus.
In Bainbridge Island, Wash., an officer died after contracting the
virus. In New Jersey, several hundred police officers and state troopers
have tested positive. So have more than 100 police officers in Nassau
County, N.Y., and dozens more in Chicago, where an undercover narcotics
officer died after contracting the virus.
“For first responders, you just don’t often have the opportunity to
isolate,” said Dermot F. Shea, the police commissioner in New York City,
whose department has lost two civilian workers and a detective to the
coronavirus.
Louisiana: Deaths and cases continue to grow
At the start of March, with large outbreaks already reported on both
coasts, officials in Louisiana had not yet identified a single case of
the coronavirus. But in the weeks since, the state has been pummeled. At
least 19,000 Louisianans had been infected and at least 755 had died.
On Thursday, state officials announced 50 additional deaths and more
than 1,000 new cases. But Gov. John Bel Edwards has said this week that
there were hopeful signs within the tragic data.
“We cannot let our guard down,” Mr. Edwards said on Wednesday, “because
if we are seeing fewer cases, it is because of the efforts that we are
making in order to minimize contact.”
Across the country, hundreds of counties are reporting cases of the
illness. Here is a list of cases Times journalists have collected. Cases
in New York City and Kansas City, Mo., both of which span several
counties, are grouped together.
Hot spots: Counties with the highest number of cases per resident
| County | Cases | Per 100,000 people |
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Faster
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|---|---|---|---|
| Rockland, N.Y. | 7,122 | 2,200 |
Feb. 26
Apr. 9
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| Blaine, Idaho | 452 | 2,055 |  |
| Westchester, N.Y. | 18,077 | 1,866 |  |
| Nassau, N.Y. | 21,512 | 1,586 |  |
| Randolph, Ga. | 102 | - |  |
| Orleans, La. | 5,416 | 1,390 |  |
| Suffolk, N.Y. | 18,692 | 1,256 |  |
| Orange, N.Y. | 4,532 | 1,198 |  |
| Dougherty, Ga. | 1,072 | 1,177 |  |
| St. John the Baptist, La. | 507 | 1,167 |  |
