Best COVID snapshot by state. Those in yellow rising

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/index.html

[wishstar]

1. I attribute NC's recent downtick to reduced testing due to lab backups

In my county alone the community drive thru testing which had been 850 per week was halted last week because the lab could not handle the volume plus lack of local staffing and supplies so the only testing right now is at doctors' offices and hospital. Prior to last week, the cars at the 3 community drive in sites were backed up and being turned away when the sites ran out of tests.

[Hortensis]

2. Not good, and thanks for elaborating on the picture. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. You are right. Irks the hell out of me that press corps

Can't effectively hold Trump's feet to the fire when questioning him. I know he turns their mics down. But they are inadvertently allowing him to riff.

That said he got rid of the hardest hitting questioners. People who know how to ask a question that makes it harder to riff on. "Why can't you get a test in North Carolina?". "throwing out big numbers of tests performed means nothing. It's do we have testing where it is needed?"

[unc70]

8. R0 in NC now down to 1.02

Things are not good here, but there are some encouraging signs.

https://covidactnow.org/us/nc

[Jersey Devil]

9. I think downtick in NC is due to effect of mandatory masks

Anecdotally, I have noticed almost everyone wearing a mask since Cooper made it mandatory versus only about 50% wearing them before it was mandatory. It takes a few weeks for things like that to take effect.

[abqtommy]

4. The scope of the covid disaster in the U.S. is in direct proportion to the ineptitude and treason

of the persons wielding political power at this time...

[lagomorph777]

5. Damn it. My state is spiking again.

I think the state govt has started to take some more steps again though.

[dalton99a]

6. Great resource

https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/index.html

[NutmegYankee]

7. This is garbage. The Connecticut data doesn't match the state data at all.

https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Coronavirus/CTDPHCOVID19summary7282020.pdf

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/connecticut-coronavirus-cases.html

There was a backlog of cases reported from out of state, covering May-early July that got reported on Friday. If the algorithm failed to account for the anomaly it looks like cases are exploding in CT. It's basically the same.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

12. Oh that's so good to know. Just spent two weeks there

And it was such a relief from TX. Everyone wears masks. Businesses "get it". People have adapted to the new world. It shows!. I felt so safe.

[Thekaspervote]

10. Il numbers may be rising some, we only had 1 death the other day and hospitalizations are down

[LizBeth]

11. A lot of the states are going down again. It doesn't seem like things were implements to level let

alone go down. Az., Fl., Tx., Wa., Nv.

[roamer65]

13. I went to Kroger today in a Metro Detroit suburb.

Everyone was in masks. EVERYONE. Even the kids.

I was very proud of them.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. +1,000,000