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by: Dara Bitler, Nexstar Media Wire

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DENVER (KDVR) With the arrival of the holiday season and the announcement of the new COVID-19 omicron variant, where does each U.S. state stand with the coronavirus?

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cases and deaths are up for the U.S. over the last 30 days.

According toJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the percent positive is exactly what it sounds like: the percentage of all coronavirus tests performed that are actually positive (positive tests)/(total tests) x 100%. The percent positive (sometimes called the percent positive rate or positivity rate) helps public health officials answer questions suchas:

The percent positive will be high if the number ofpositive testsis high, or if the number oftotal testsis low. A higher percent positive suggests higher transmission and that there are likely more people with coronavirus in the community who havent been tested yet, according to Johns Hopkins.

Heres where the positivity rate and case totals are for each state for the last seven days as of Monday, according to the CDC:

Here are the total number of deaths reported over the last seven days for each state:

In comparison, according to the CDC, four people died from Influenza in the U.S. during week 47 of 2021.

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