COVID map update: major shift in U.S. states with highest rates A new cluster of states across the country has seen a significant spike in the recorded COVID-19 cases. Newsweek

..For the week ending August 31, the CDC reported that 16.3 percent of all COVID-19 tests performed in the U.S.—excluding at-home test results—were coming back positive. This is a 0.4 percent decrease from the previous week, but the infection rates have not been evenly distributed across the country.

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For much of the summer, region six—which incorporates Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas—showed the highest rates of COVID-19 infection, with as many as 1 in 4 tests coming out as positive in early August. However, in the last week alone, positive cases have declined in this region by 4.4 percent and, as of August 31, just 14.5 percent of cases were coming out as positive.

Now, the region with the highest percentage of positive tests is region three—covering Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia—where 19.5 percent of all tests performed in the week ending August 31 came out as positive. ...