Glad to see Florida isn’t on the list. Florida never stopped for C-19 like the rest of the US.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2025
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COVID cases are high in Texas, California, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico and other states in the West and South Central part of the country.
“We are seeing cases increase here in Houston, and in Texas, and if we look at the data that is available from [the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention], it certainly seems like the South Central U.S. — Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana — are seeing some of the higher test positivity rates in the in the country,” said Dr. S. Wesley Long, the medical director of diagnostic microbiology at Houston Methodist Hospital.
According to Dr. Scott Roberts, an infectious disease doctor at Yale Medicine in Connecticut, “the highest test positivity is in the Texas region ... with the second highest kind of broadly being the West Coast. So, the Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada areas, but that does extend through Colorado and then the Dakotas.”
COVID test positivity rates, which measure the percentage of positive tests out of all tests given, in the United States is 11.2%, which is up from 9.9% last week and 2.7% in May, according to CDC data.
This number is an average of positivity rates across the country, meaning it’s lower in some places and higher in others. Test positivity is as high as 17.9% in places like Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico, and 7.5% in many New England states.