COVID Map Update: Major Shift in US States With Highest Rates

COVID map update: major shift in U.S. states with highest rates A new cluster of states across the country has seen a significant spike in the recorded COVID-19 cases. Newsweek

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For the week ending August 31, the CDC reported that 16.3 percent of all COVID-19 tests performed in the U.S.—excluding at-home test results—were coming back positive. This is a 0.4 percent decrease from the previous week, but the infection rates have not been evenly distributed across the country.

The below map illustrates the distribution of positive tests in the U.S., divided into 10 Health and Human Service regions.

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... the region with the highest percentage of positive tests is region three—covering Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia—where 19.5 percent of all tests performed in the week ending August 31 came out as positive.

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