November 5, 2020 – The United States on Wednesday recorded over 100,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time since the pandemic began.
The total count of new infections was at least 107,000, according to a New York Times database.
Twenty-three states have recorded more cases in the past week than in any other 7-day stretch.
Five states — Colorado, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota and Nebraska — set single-day case records on Wednesday. Cases were also mounting in the Mountain West and even in the Northeast.
North and South Dakota and Wisconsin have led the country for weeks in the number of new cases relative to their population. But other states have seen steep recent increases in the last 14 days.
Daily case reports in Minnesota, on average, have increased 102% over that time, while those in Indiana have risen 73%. For months, Maine had among the lowest levels of transmission anywhere in the country, but new cases there have more than tripled. In Wyoming, new cases are up 73%, while in Iowa they have more than doubled.