After adding more than 561,000 new cases in the past week, the United States now has more than 77. 9 million shown cases of COVID-19. There have been more than 930,000 COVID-19-related deaths, the death toll of any country.
New cases continue to rise, at a slower pace. Over the past week, there was an average of 31. 4 new coronavirus cases per day out of 100,000 Americans, a low from last week, when there were an average of 60. 3 new coronavirus cases consistent with the day consistent with 100,000 people.
While COVID-19 has spread to nearly one and both regions of the country, cities remain the scene of the first outbreaks. Experts agree that the virus is more likely to spread in business environments where large numbers of people have close contact. among themselves, such as universities, nursing homes, bars and restaurants. Metropolitan spaces with a high degree of connectivity between neighborhoods and a large population would be at risk.
The metropolitan domain of Tuscaloosa, AL, includes Tuscaloosa County, Pickens County, Hale County, and some other counties. Over the past week, there have been an average of 50. 6 new coronavirus cases each day according to 100,000 tuscaloosa citizens, which is consistent with the national figure. The average daily growth in instances in the metropolitan domain in the most recent week is a low of last week, when there was an average of 59. 4 new daily instances for 100,000 Tuscaloosa residents.
The spread of the coronavirus depends on the points and can spread even among neighboring counties. In the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area, COVID-19 is consistent with the fastest expansion in Hale County. There have been an average of 106. 0 consistent new cases per day consistent with 100,000 citizens in Hale County over the past week, with a maximum of 4 Tuscaloosa counties for which information is available.
Instance expansion in the Tuscaloosa metropolitan area varies at the county level. In Tuscaloosa County, for example, there have been an average of 45. 1 new instances per day consistent with 100,000 citizens over the past week, the lowest of all Tuscaloosa counties and more than the rate of instance expansion in Hale County.
Just as Hale County is driving the spread of COVID-19 in the Tuscaloosa region, it also has the occurrence of instances in general. As of Feb. 24, there were a total of 31,386. 3 instances shown consistent with a population of 100,000 in Hale County, the highest of the 4 counties in the metropolitan area. By comparison, the United States has so far reported 24,014. 4 cases consistent with 100,000 Americans nationwide.
The pandemic has led to the closure of thousands of businesses in direct contact with consumers across the country. These adjustments have led to widespread job losses and record unemployment. In Hale County, unemployment peaked at 20. 6% in April 2020. As of June 2021, the county’s unemployment rate is 6. 3 percent.
For the county of each metropolitan domain where COVID-19 is developing the fastest, Wall St. collected and reviewed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, knowledge of national and local fitness services. We rank counties based on the average number of new daily COVID-19 cases consistent with a population of 100,000 over the seven days ending Feb. 24. To estimate the occurrence of COVID-19 at the metropolitan point, we aggregated knowledge of the county point using boundary definitions. The demographic knowledge used to adjust case and death totals comes from the U. S. Census. USA U. S. Community Surveyof 2019 from the Office and are five-year estimates. Knowledge of unemployment comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and is not seasonally adjusted.
These are all counties in Alabama COVID-19 is slowing down (and getting even worse).