(1) In the top row above, you can see in the U.S. overall, total cases and deaths to date grew 3% and 2% on Sunday respectively. (That’s down from 3% and 4% the previous Sunday.)

(2) New York State’s cases and deaths grew 2% and 2% on that same day respectively. (That’s also down from 3% and 4% the previous Sunday).

(3) The U.S. states with a double-digit % increase in cases yesterday were Nebraska (fourth straight day) and Delaware.  (Math note: A consistent 10.5% daily increase in a statistic means that it doubles weekly.)

(4) The U.S. states with a double-digit % increase in deaths were South Dakota and, for the third day in a row, Minnesota.  

(5) In terms of the number of tests that have been conducted to date, as a percentage of the population Rhode Island is doing best, followed by New York, Massachusetts, and Utah (jumping ahead of Louisiana).  

This table of U.S. states is sorted in descending order of Covid-19 cases identified to date, using data through Sunday, April 26th.  Note that the data columns are sortable — just click once or twice in the header at the top of the column to sort the table by that column in ascending or descending order. We suggest that sorting by the columns labeled “per 1M pop.” in descending order is the best way to reveal which states are most affected by the Covid-19 crisis to date.  (For example, while California ranks near the top of the list in total cases and deaths to date, this is largely due to the state’s huge population — it ranks much lower when you look at cases and deaths per million population.)  Sorting by either of the final two columns (yesterday’s % increase) in descending order shows which states are having trouble containing their spread at the moment. (Data source: Worldometers.info.)