Nationally, COVID-19 ED visits grew by 23.5% as of July 6, compared to the week prior. The CDC defines a “substantial increase” as a growth of 20% or more.
Mississippi saw the largest increase of 82.9% of visits diagnosed as COVID-19 from last week compared to the week prior, CDC data shows.
The other states seeing the largest increase in COVID-19 ED diagnoses over the same time frame are:
- Rhode Island — 55.1%
- Idaho — 51.5%
- Iowa — 44.6%
- Michigan — 41%
- South Carolina — 38.8%
- Texas — 37.5%
- Louisiana — 36.3%
- Indiana — 35.9%
- Georgia — 35.8%
- Maryland — 35.4%
- Connecticut — 34.5%
- Kentucky — 33.7%
- Illinois — 33.5%
- Virginia — 33.1%
- Montana — 32.7%
- New Hampshire — 31.7%
- Ohio — 30.5%
- Utah — 28.4%
- Wisconsin — 27.9%
- Florida — 27.9%
- Massachusetts — 26.7%
- Arkansas — 26.1%
- Tennessee — 22.7%
- Pennsylvania — 22%
- Kansas — 21.1%
