Our daily update is published. States reported 1.3 million tests, 66k cases, 63,398 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 2,336 deaths.
Weather-related outages in Texas have resulted in significant case and fatality reporting delays. It's likely that winter storms across the country have partially resulted in artificially low numbers.
5 weeks ago, 33 states reported 500 or more COVID-19 cases per million people. Today, no states have reached that threshold.