(Reuters) – The United States last week reported an 8% increase in new cases of COVID-19 to 490,000, the fourth week in a row that infections have increased, according to a Reuters analysis by State and provincial data.
In the week ended April 11, Michigan reported the highest number of new cases per capita of all 50 states and also hospitalized the country per hospitalization. (Open https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS/USA-TRENDS/dgkvlgkrkpb/index.html in an external browser to view information about other states.)
About 39% of new cases in Michigan were among the more contagious B.1.1.7 variant of the virus first identified in the UK, the highest percentage in the United States, according to CDC data on ‘ a period of four weeks was collected and which ended. on March 13th. At the same time that business is starting to increase in early March, Michigan is easing COVID restrictions.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, said Michigan should “close” to curb the increase in cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
“The answer to that is to really close things, to go back to our basics, to go back to where we were last spring, last summer, and to shut things down,” Walensky said at a news conference on Monday. .
Deaths from COVID-19, which tends to weaken infections by a few weeks, fell 7% last week to 5,325, according to a backlog of deaths reported by Oklahoma, according to the Reuters analysis.
Last week, Oklahoma reported 1,716 new deaths that occurred between August and February that were not reported due to a laboratory error. Including the backlog, deaths rose by 21%.
The average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals increased by 6% to more than 39,000, increasing for a second week in a row.
For a seventh week, vaccinations set a record, with an average of 3.1 million shots given per day last week. According to the CDC, 36% of the U.S. population received at least one dose as of Sunday and 22% were fully vaccinated. New Hampshire became the first state to give at least one dose to more than half of its residents.
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(Graph by Chris Canipe, written by Lisa Shumaker, edited by Tiffany Wu)