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Peter wells
The United States on Tuesday reported a single-day increase in deaths on par with levels previously experienced in May, while hospitalizations rose again to a new peak.
States attributed another 1,565 deaths to the coronavirus, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project, up from 581 on Monday and 1,347 on Tuesday last week.
The latest increase was on par with 1,565 deaths on Wednesday of last week, which in turn was the largest one-day increase in deaths from Covid-19 since mid-May.
Better treatment, preparation and more knowledge about the coronavirus have meant that overall daily death rates have been lower than in the initial stage of the pandemic, which hit northeastern states like New York and New Jersey hard. However, deaths have increased throughout the fall, below record levels for daily new cases and hospitalizations.
The United States has averaged 1,129 coronavirus deaths a day for the past week. During the summer surge that mainly affected the southern and western states of the country, there are only two days with an average of seven days higher than the one in the United States today.
A biker in a mask rides down a Chicago street
If the seven-day average death rate exceeds 1,142, the metric will be at its highest since late May.
Texas (117) and Illinois (113) reported the largest jumps in deaths in a day on Tuesday. Wisconsin (103), Iowa (36) and Kentucky (33) had record increases, according to the Financial Times analysis of data from the Covid Tracking Project.
States reported 155,201 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, up from 148,532 on Monday and up from nearly 131,000 on Tuesday last week. Over the past week, the US averaged 154,365 cases a day.
Illinois (12,601), Texas (11,624, including new and historic cases) and California (8,743) had the biggest jumps in infections in one day. Pennsylvania (5,900), Nebraska (3,440), Wyoming (1,260), and Maine (246) reported single-day records.
Hospitalizations reached a new peak, with 76,830 people currently receiving treatment for coronavirus in US hospitals.
