The federal data updates approximately once a month and appears as a spike in deaths on the day it updates. data based on death certificates for locations that do not report deaths regularly or comprehensively. More about reporting anomalies or changes The Times has identified reporting anomalies or methodology changes in the data. Department of Health and Human Services and are subject to historical revisions.

Hospitalizations and test positivity are reported based on dates assigned by the U.S. viral test specimens tested by laboratories and state health departments and reported to the federal government. Hospitalization numbers early in the pandemic are undercounts due to incomplete reporting by hospitals to the federal government. Dips and spikes could be due to inconsistent reporting by hospitals. Figures for Covid patients in hospitals and I.C.U.s are the most recent number of patients with Covid-19 who are hospitalized or in an intensive care unit on that day. Cases and deaths data are assigned to dates based on when figures are publicly reported. The seven-day average is the average of the most recent seven days of data. Department of Health and Human Services (test positivty, hospitalizations, I.C.U. About this data Sources: State and local health agencies (cases, deaths) U.S. January 2022 was the month with the highest average cases, while January 2021 was the month with the highest average deaths in California.At least 1 in 379 residents have died from the coronavirus, a total of 104,277 deaths. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 12,169,158 cases have been reported.Cases have decreased by 27 percent from the average two weeks ago. An average of 2,433 cases per day were reported in California in the last week.Figures shown are the most recent data available. data may not yet be available for yesterday. Test positivity, hospitalization and I.C.U. test results reported to the federal government. Test positivity, hospitalizations, I.C.U.s and deaths show seven-day averages. Department of Health and Human Services (test positivity, hospitalizations, I.C.U.

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