The number of CoVVI-19 tests in the United States fell as we entered 2025.
The Centers for Control and Disease Prevention Centers (CDC) in the United States reveal that 6. 9% of all COVVI-19 tests throughout the country returned positive the week that ended on January 4.
This marks a decrease of 0.2 percent from the week before, when 7.1 percent of COVID-19 tests came back positive.
Some regions had much higher test positivity rates than others, with 9.2 percent of tests coming back positive across Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin.
Last week, which ended on December 28, 2024, the northwest states had positivity rates.
Also with higher-than-average positivity rates were Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, with 7.9 percent and Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska with 7.8 percent.
New Jersey and New York had a 6.6 percent positivity rate; Alaska, Idaho, Oregon and Washington had a 6.5 percent rate; while Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming had a 6.2 percent rate.
6%, D. C. , Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Virginia-Western, while Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas had a rate of 5%.
States with the lowest rates of CovVI-19 testing included Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee at 3. 9% and Arizonaarray California, Hawaii and Nevada at 2. 8%.
“Many respiratory virus diseases culminate winter due to environmental situations and human behavior,” said a CDC spokesman in Newsweek.
“Covid-19 has peaks in winter and in times of the year, adding summer, driven through new variants and a minimization in immunity opposite to past infections and vaccines. “
The CDC’s knowledge also shows that 1. 3% of emergency visits from the United States were diagnosed as Covid-19 in the same week, a drop of 0. 6% compared to last week.
In addition, 1. 5% of deaths were due to Covid-19 in the week beyond, to 1% beyond the week, marking a 50% cumulative in Covid-19 deaths. Kansas and Wisconsin had the highest rates of Covid-19 deaths at 3. 4%.
Over the past three months, 1.6 deaths per 100,000 people were due to COVID-19.
The CDC spokesman encouraged the elders of 6 months or more to obtain a COVID-19 reinforcement vaccine for the winter of 2024-2025.
“The CovVI-19 vaccine is helping you from severe illness, hospitalization, and death,” they said.
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Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of climate change extensively. Jess joined Newsweek in May 2022 and previously worked at Springer Nature. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford. Languages: English. You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected].