National Covid death rate on Feb. 11 2.4 times that of Dec. 6

Back on December 6, 2021, the CDC reported a Covid death rate


7 DAY DEATH RATE PER 100,000 2.4

AND a case rate

7 DAY CASE RATE PER 100,000 218.9




On February 11, 2021, more than two months into the omicron wave, the CDC reported

a death rate of 4.9

and a case rate

7 DAY CASE RATE PER 100,000 401.5

The "bad" states for high case rate

Alaska 1,230.6 Kentucky 944.7 Montana 917.4 West Virginia 870.8 Idaho 728.1 North Dakota 715.3 Mississippi 671.4 Arizona 613.9 Tennessee 610.2 New Mexico 562.2 South Carolina 556.7 Minnesota 551.6 Oregon 534.3 Wyoming 532.2 New Hampshire 527.9 California 525.8 Florida 479.9 North Carolina 479.5 Washington 467.5 Kansas 458.3 Hawaii 440.9 Maine 435.7 Utah 425.8 Louisiana 417 Missouri 397.3

In spite of the continued high death rate, one finds stories like the following from the Feb. 12 Newark Star Ledger

Merely for illustrative purposes the CASE rate of Hawaii