COVID-19 pandemic in the United States

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COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
Confirmed cases per 100,000 residents by state.
Disease	COVID-19
Virus strain	SARS-CoV-2
Location	United States
First outbreak	Wuhan, Hubei, China[1]
Index case	Chicago, Illinois (earliest known arrival)[2] Everett, Washington (first case report)[3]
Arrival date	January 13, 2020[4] (4 years, 10 months and 2 days ago)
Confirmed cases	103,436,829[5]
Deaths	1,206,141[5] (reported)
Vaccinations	270,227,170[5] (79.1216%) (people with at least one dose) 230,637,340[5] (67.52983%) (fully vaccinated people)
Government website
coronavirus.gov

The COVID-19 pandemic spread to the United States in January 2020. The first confirmed case of local transmission was recorded in January in Chicago and the first known deaths happened in February.

By the end of March, cases had happened in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories except American Samoa.^[6][7]

As of November 10, 2024, 103,436,829 cases of COVID-19 have been reported, and 1,206,141 people have died of COVID-19.^[8]

1. ↑ Sheikh K, Rabin RC (March 10, 2020). "The Coronavirus: What Scientists Have Learned So Far". The New York Times. Retrieved March 24, 2020.
2. ↑ "Coronavirus: the first three months as it happened". Nature. April 22, 2020. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00154-w. PMID 32152592. S2CID 212652777.
3. ↑ Holshue ML, DeBolt C, Lindquist S, Lofy KH, Wiesman J, Bruce H, et al. (March 2020). "First Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus in the United States". New England Journal of Medicine. 382 (10): 929–936. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa2001191. PMC 7092802. PMID 32004427.
4. ↑ "Second Travel-related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in United States". U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Second Travel-related Case of 2019 Novel Coronavirus Detected in United States: The patient returned to the U.S. from Wuhan on January 13, 2020
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Dattani, Saloni; Roser, Max (2020–2023). "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
6. ↑ "CDC Weekly Key Messages: March 29, 2020 as of 10:30 p.m." Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. March 29, 2020. Archived from the original on April 28, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
7. ↑ Smith, Oliver (April 21, 2020). "The only places on Earth still (apparently) without coronavirus". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on April 24, 2020. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
8. ↑ Ritchie, Hannah; Mathieu, Edouard; Rodés-Guirao, Lucas; Appel, Cameron; Giattino, Charlie; Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban; Hasell, Joe; Macdonald, Bobbie; Beltekian, Diana; Dattani, Saloni; Roser, Max (2020–2023). "Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19)". Our World in Data. Retrieved 2024-11-10.