Coronavirus in the U.S.: Latest Map and Case Count
By Mitch Smith, Karen Yourish, Sarah Almukhtar, Keith Collins, Danielle Ivory, Allison McCann, Jin Wu and
More than 2,300 people with the coronavirus have now died in the United States, according to a New York Times database, a figure that has more than doubled since Thursday and continues to rise sharply as deaths are reported by the dozens or hundreds in New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Michigan and elsewhere.
Where cases have been reported
Note: The map shows the known locations of coronavirus cases by county. Circles are sized by the number of people there who have tested positive, which may differ from where they contracted the illness. Some people who traveled overseas were taken for treatment in California, Nebraska and Texas. Puerto Rico and the other U.S. territories are not shown. Sources: State and local health agencies, hospitals, C.D.C. Data as of 2:30 P.M. E.T., Mar. 29.
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The increase in deaths comes as governors across the country seek scarce ventilators and implore residents to stay at home. With infection rates expected to continue increasing, convention centers are being converted into makeshift medical centers, hospital ships on both coasts are preparing for patients and some places are screening travelers with out-of-state license plates.
As of Sunday afternoon, at least 135,738 people across every state, plus Washington, D.C., and four U.S. territories, have tested positive for the virus, according to a New York Times database. At least 2,391 patients with the virus have died.
The outbreak in this country, where there are now more known cases than in China or Italy, looks vastly different than it did a month ago. At the start of March, with extremely limited testing available, only 70 cases had been reported in the United States, most of them tied to overseas travel. With testing now more readily available, at least 20 states now have more than 1,000 known cases within their borders, including Maryland, where 10 people have died and where dozens of people at a nursing home have been infected.
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As the number of known cases reached into the hundreds, then the thousands, then the tens of thousands, life all over the country has changed in sudden, profound ways. School playgrounds and college quads now stand deserted. Nail salons, department stores and barber shops have been forced to close. Baseball’s spring training, college basketball tournaments and concert tours have been called off. Some states have told people arriving from elsewhere to quarantine themselves. Others have warned that the pause on public life will likely last weeks more.
The New York Times is engaged in a comprehensive effort to track the details of every confirmed 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.
New York: 59,513 cases have been identified.
When a cluster of coronavirus cases was first reported in the New York City suburb of New Rochelle, local and state officials raced to contain the outbreak. The National Guard deployed. Drive-through testing began. Epidemiologists attempted to find contacts of the first patients.
Within a few days, though, it became clear that the virus was still spreading. With ramped-up testing, hundreds of new patients were being identified in Westchester County, on Long Island and in all five New York City boroughs. Dozens of other counties reported their first cases, and several announced deaths.
By Sunday, New York’s death toll from the coronavirus surpassed 960, by far the most of any state. The governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, ordered many businesses to close, urged retired doctors to return to work and asked for federal help in marshaling more hospital equipment. A temporary hospital will open in a Manhattan convention center.
“We are losing people every day,” Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York City said on Thursday. “The next few months will be painful and stress our health care system like never before.”
| STATE | CASES | DEATHS |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 59,513 | 965 |
| New Jersey | 13,386 | 161 |
| California | 5,735 | 124 |
| Michigan | 4,635 | 112 |
| Washington | 4,319 | 191 |
| Massachusetts | 4,257 | 44 |
| Florida | 4,238 | 55 |
| Illinois | 3,558 | 50 |
| Louisiana | 3,540 | 152 |
| Pennsylvania | 3,408 | 38 |
Though New York has had by far the most cases, other Northeastern states have also seen their case totals increase rapidly. New Jersey now has the second-highest number of known cases in the country. In Massachusetts, more than 100 people are being diagnosed each day. In Connecticut, dozens of new patients have been identified on each recent day.
In America’s nursing homes, outbreaks grow.
Across the country, a pattern has played out with tragic consistency: Someone gets sick in a nursing home. Soon, several residents and employees have the coronavirus.
Older people and those with underlying health problems are most vulnerable to Covid-19, making the consequences of a nursing home outbreak especially devastating. At least 37 deaths have been linked to an outbreak at the Life Care nursing facility in Kirkland, Wash. Many of the victims were in their 80s or 90s.
In New Orleans and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., multiple deaths have been tied to senior centers. In Wisconsin, the National Guard was sent to a long-term care facility where three people have died. Similar outbreaks have been reported in Ohio, in West Virginia and in Mount Airy, Md., where more than 60 residents and employees have been infected.
Though many of the first coronavirus cases in the United States were tied to overseas travel, localized outbreaks have become increasingly common. New clusters in nursing homes and other places, including on an aircraft carrier in Guam and at a church in Arkansas, are emerging each day. Public health officials often are unable to identify how people are becoming ill. The table below shows known cases for which Times journalists have been able to identify how the virus was contracted or a connection to other cases.
| CASES CONNECTED TO | |
|---|---|
| Travel overseas | 174 |
| Travel within the U.S. | 167 |
| Life Care nursing facility; Kirkland, Wash. | 129 |
| Community in New Rochelle, N.Y. | 119 |
| Biogen conference in Boston | 109 |
| Cook County Jail; Chicago | 101 |
| Pleasant View Nursing Home; Mount Airy, Md. | 66 |
| Travel in Egypt | 52 |
| Diamond Princess cruise ship | 43 |
| Long-term care facility; DuPage County, Ill. | 42 |
The growth in cases of unknown origin has signaled to public health officials that Americans are being exposed to the virus at work, at shopping centers and in travel hubs, prompting calls for people to stay home. Among recent cases: the owner of the New York Knicks, the mayor of Aurora, Ill., and April Dunn, 33, a state worker in Louisiana who died after contracting the virus.
Midwestern cities face new onslaught
When the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, the vast majority of cases were in coastal states. Illinois and Wisconsin had only a few cases. Michigan, Missouri and Ohio had none.
But this week, all of those states have reported alarming new statistics. Many of the new cases and deaths have been concentrated in the Midwest’s largest cities.
In Detroit, more than 1,300 cases have been identified and at least 30 people have died. Seven deaths and more than 480 cases have been reported in Milwaukee County, Wis. In Chicago, where officials said Saturday that an infant with the virus had died, there are more than 1,600 cases.
The areas around Cleveland, St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., have also seen fast spikes, leading officials to warn that medical facilities could be overwhelmed.
“What we do now will determine if we overrun Ohio’s hospitals and get to a situation where our medical teams are making life and death decisions,” the state’s governor, Mike DeWine, said Thursday. “We don't want to be in that position. I worry about this every day.”
Police departments face an invisible threat
While workers in many industries have stopped going to the office, police officers have continued their daily patrols, even in the hardest-hit areas.
As the outbreak has grown, so, too, has the number of officers infected with the coronavirus in cities like Detroit, where at least two police employees have died from the virus, many more have been infected and others have been told to self-isolate.
“Some have been quarantined and want to come back to work,” Chief James Craig of the Detroit police said about his officers last week, a few days before he also tested positive for the virus. “These are the same people, let’s not forget, who when they are going to a dangerous situation like shots being fired, they’re running toward the danger. This is no different.”
The effect on law enforcement officers has been widespread. In Aurora, Ill., the police chief was infected with the virus. In New Jersey, at least 700 police officers and state troopers have tested positive. So have dozens of police officers in Nassau County, N.Y., and at least 21 in Chicago, where three have been hospitalized.
“For first responders, you just don’t often have the opportunity to isolate,” said Dermot F. Shea, the police commissioner in New York City, whose department has lost two civilian workers and a detective to the coronavirus.
Louisiana: Deaths and cases continue to grow
At the start of March, with large outbreaks already reported on both coasts, officials in Louisiana had not yet identified a single case of the coronavirus. But in the days since, the state has been pummeled. At least 3,540 Louisianans had been infected and at least 152 had died. Gov. John Bel Edwards has warned that the New Orleans area could run out of ventilators by early April.
“We still remain on the growth curve, the trajectory that we don’t like,” Mr. Edwards said Friday, days after he warned that the state’s situation could soon mirror the public health crisis in Italy.
In New Orleans, where the most cases had been identified, drive-through coronavirus testing has become the norm and public gatherings have been banned.
“This should not be unfamiliar to us as New Orleanians,” the city’s mayor, LaToya Cantrell, said on Twitter. “We know how to handle storms, and this is not so different.”
Across the country, hundreds of counties are reporting cases of the illness. Here is a list of cases Times journalists have collected. Cases in New York City and Kansas City, Mo., both of which span several counties, are grouped together.
| STATE | COUNTY | CASES | DEATHS |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Autauga | 6 | 0 |
| Alabama | Baldwin | 14 | 0 |
| Alabama | Blount | 5 | 0 |
| Alabama | Bullock | 3 | 0 |
| Alabama | Butler | 1 | 0 |
| Alabama | Calhoun | 3 | 0 |
| Alabama | Chambers | 25 | 1 |
| Alabama | Cherokee | 2 | 0 |
| Alabama | Chilton | 7 | 0 |
| Alabama | Choctaw | 1 | 0 |
Outbreaks in jails and prison could be hard to contain
At the county jail in Chicago, at least 101 cases involving inmates and staff members have been tied to the virus. In South Dakota, several inmates escaped from a women’s prison after someone there tested positive for the virus. In the federal system, at least 27 inmates and prison workers across the U.S. have tested positive for the virus. One federal inmate in Louisiana has died.
The New York Times has spoken with more than a dozen workers in the Bureau of Prisons in recent days who have said that federal prisons are ill-prepared for a coronavirus outbreak. Many lack basic supplies, like masks, hand sanitizer and soap.
“We do not have enough gloves,” said a prison employee at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta, where a cluster of coronavirus cases has appeared, involving at least two inmates and one staff member. The worker spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the Bureau of Prisons. “We do not have enough masks; we do not have the supplies needed to deal with this. We don’t have enough space to properly quarantine inmates.”
