Fully 20% of California’s population has now had Covid. That count does not include those who got positive results from at-home tests and did not officially report them.
That makes California the nation’s most infected state, in terms of raw numbers. The next-closest region is Texas, with more than 2 million fewer infections, according to the New York Times.
In terms of average cases per 100,000 across the pandemic, however, California is below the norm at about 21,600 cases per 100,000 residents.
At the top of that list, Rhode Island has seen more than 32,700 cases per 100,000.Still the raw numbers are staggering. The number of flu cases in the state in the season before Covid hit, 2018-2019, was roughly 40,000, per state figures.
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