Pandemic Hot Spots

Not a surprise - American life has been fundamentally reordered because of the virus. Concerts, parades and high school basketball games continue to be called off. Countless people have found themselves jobless and struggling to afford housing. Many schools and colleges have held few or no in-person classes this fall. More than 397,000 cases have been linked to colleges and universities over the course of the pandemic. Thousands more cases have been identified in elementary, middle and high schools 

As of Monday morning, more than 16,368,400 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 299,300 have died, according to a New York Times database.

PLEASE NOTE: The New York Times has found that official tallies in the United States and in more than a dozen other countries have undercounted deaths during the coronavirus outbreak because of limited testing availability

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At least 1,357 new coronavirus deaths and 183,814 new cases were reported in the United States on Dec. 13. Over the past week, there has been an average of 210,039 cases per day, an increase of 30 percent from the average two weeks earlier. . .

The New York Times is engaged in a comprehensive effort to track information on every coronavirus case in the United States, collecting information from federal, state and local officials around the clock. The numbers in this article are being updated several times a day based on the latest information our journalists are gathering from around the country. The Times has made that data public in hopes of helping researchers and policymakers as they seek to slow the pandemic and prevent future ones.

The Times’s data collection for this page is based on reports from state and local health agencies, a process that was unchanged by the Trump administration's requirement that hospitals bypass the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and send all patient information to a central database in Washington