New data released Sunday showed United States set a record for new coronavirus cases averaged over a seven-day period, as cases march steadily upward.
The average new cases per day over a seven-day period was 68,954 on Sunday, according to the Covid Tracking Project, beating the previous record of 66,844 set on July 23.
The COVID Tracking Project is a volunteer organization dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States.
The data shows that the country has now passed the July peak, this comes as the weather gets colder and more activity moves indoors, where the virus spreads more easily.
The COVID Data showed the country also set a one-day record on Friday with over 83,000 cases.
Johns Hopkins University health experts noted that the percentage of tests coming back positive is also rising, another sign of the rising spread of the virus. It is now at about 6 percent nationally and climbing,
White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said Sunday, “We are gonna control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations.”
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