It encouraged fully vaccinated people to mask up indoors if they live in a place with "substantial" or "high" coronavirus transmission, and for people who were unvaccinated, to always mask up indoors in public. You can look up your county on the CDC's page here, to see what its community risk level is and whether masking is advised where you live.įormerly, the agency's advice for masking was based on rates of new infections and test positivity rates. The agency says people in counties with with a high "COVID-19 community level" should still wear masks indoors people in counties with low and medium levels can make a choice based on their personal risk level. The guidelines take into account rates of hospitalizations for COVID-19, the share of beds occupied by COVID-19 patients in local hospitals and the rates of new infections. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new guidelines for assessing a community's COVID risk in late February. For current data about county-level COVID-19 community levels and community transmission rates, consult the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. account for almost one-quarter of the total reported worldwide.Editor's note: This page is no longer being updated.
have contracted COVID-19 and more than 354,000 have died since the start of the pandemic early last year, according to statistics kept by Johns Hopkins University. The numbers are expected to be updated each Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
"We intend to add to the data we have online as time goes on." "Initially, COVID-19 vaccine doses distributed and administered was what was available, but we’ve expanded that data to include jurisdictional breakdowns and data from long-term care facilities," said Nordlund. 14, CDC spokesperson Kristen Nordlund told in an email Tuesday. Those numbers are provided by state, local and territorial public health agencies, according to the CDC.įour federal entities – the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Defense, Veterans Health Administration and Indian Health Services – are included in the tracker as well. Arizona, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Michigan also ranked toward the bottom. Kansas had the lowest rate with 690 per 100,000 people. Learn how CDC estimates vaccination coverage. The percent of the population coverage metrics are capped at 95. Maps, charts, and data provided by CDC, updates daily by 8pm ET.
Of those, Montana ranked the highest with 3,042 per 100,000 people having received their first dose. COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States. As of Monday, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut, Washington D.C., West Virginia, Tennessee, South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana had the highest rates of vaccinations per capita, with at least 2,000 shots administered per 100,000 people. Those interested in more localized data can click on the tracker's map to see numbers for individual states and territories. The tracker, part of the CDC's overall online data center for COVID-19, also includes the number of doses administered under a federal program to vaccinate residents and staff of long-term care facilities, which CDC guidelines say should be a top priority. (WATCH: How Soon Can You Visit Loved Ones Who’ve Been Vaccinated? ) "A large difference between the number of doses distributed and the number of people initiating vaccination is expected at this point in the COVID vaccination program due to several factors, including delays in reporting of administered doses and management of available vaccine stocks by jurisdictions and federal pharmacy partners," the CDC said on the vaccine tracker website. The CDC says the gap in numbers between doses distributed and those administered – or initiated, as the agency calls them – shouldn't be a surprise. The numbers as of Monday: More than 15 million doses shipped, and just over 4.5 million shots given.įederal officials had projected that 20 million would be vaccinated by the end of 2020. Learn about new treatments, including monoclonal antibodies which can reduce hospitalization and death in high-risk individuals. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is counting how many doses have been shipped and how many people have been given their first shot. Prevent COVID-19 from spreading to others by taking care of yourself, and taking precautions to prevent spreading the disease to others. As the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in the United States continues at a slower pace than originally hoped, a tracking tool launched by the U.S.
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