Back to the rate of positive tests by state.
Arizona: 26.6% (Down 0.2%)
Mississippi: 21.5% (Up 9.0%)
South Carolina: 19.1% (Up 2.2%)
Florida: 18.6% (Down 0.3%)
Texas: 17.7% (Up 2.3%)
Georgia: 16.0% (Up 2.8%)
Alabama: 15.6% (Up 1.5%)
Idaho: 14.9% (Up 2.9%)
Nevada: 13.2% (Down 0.5%)
Arkansas: 11.9% (Up 2.4%)
Utah: 10.9% (Up 1.8%)
Kansas: 10.3% (Up 0.7%)
Louisiana: 9.7% (Up 1.2%)
Iowa: 8.9% (Up 0.3%)
National Average: 8.8% (Up 0.8%)
Tennessee: 8.6% (Up 0.8%)
Indiana: 8.4% (Up 1.8%)
California: 8.3% (Up 0.8%)
Oklahoma: 7.8% (Up 0.5%)
North Carolina: 7.8% (Up 0.9%)
Kentucky: 7.1% (Up 2.2%)
Wisconsin: 6.9% (Up 0.6%)
South Dakota: 6.6% (Down 1.0%)
Colorado: 6.6% (Up 1.9%)
Washington: 6.5% (Up 0.7%)
Nebraska: 6.4% (Down 0.3%)
Ohio: 6.1% (Down 0.5%)
Oregon: 6.1% (Up 0.4%)
Missouri: 6.1% (Up 1.2%)
Maryland: 5.5% (Up 0.7%)
North Dakota: 5.5% (Up 1.6%)
Pennsylvania: 5.4% (Down 0.1%)
Virginia: 5.2% (Up 0.4%)
Minnesota: 5.1% (Up 1.6%)
Delaware: 5% (Down 0.3%)
Wyoming: 4.9% (Down 0.5%)
New Mexico: 4.4% (Up 0.8%)
West Virginia: 4.3% (Up 1.2%)
Montana: 3.8% (Up 1.3%)
Rhode Island: 3.1% (Up 1.2%)
Illinois: 3.0% (Up 0.4%)
Michigan: 2.6% (Up 0.2%)
Massachusetts: 2.5% (Same)
Hawaii: 2.1% (Up 0.5%)
District of Columbia: 1.7% (Down 0.1%)
New Hampshire: 1.7% (Up 0.1%)
Alaska: 1.6% (Up 0.3%)
New Jersey: 1.3% (Down 0.3%)
New York: 1.0% (Down 0.1%)
Connecticut: 1% (Up 0.2%)
Maine: 0.9% (Down 0.3%)
Vermont: 0.8% (Down 0.1%)
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Nationally, it's getting worse. We're averaging an 8.8% positive test rate (8.8 out of every 100 covid tests comes back positive).
There are some interesting patterns emerging.
The states with the lowest rate of positive tests are all in the North East. (Vermont, Maine, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey). They got hammered hard early on but things have since stabilized significantly for this region.
Arizona and Florida, while still terrible, have at least shown a small decrease. It's terrible there, but at least it's no longer getting worse.
Mississippi had a HUGE increase that propelled them into 2nd place behind only Arizona. In fact, there seems to be big growing numbers in several of the Southern states (Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Arkansas).
The new trouble spots have been Arizona, Texas, and Florida. To some degree, you can throw California in there too, but their numbers are greatly misleading. California has been hitting big numbers because there are a lot of people there. Arizona, Texas, and Florida have statistically been far worse. I expect the next trouble spot to be in the South, particularly Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi.
In conclusion, not good.
