There has been one documented COVID-19 case for every 46 Americans.
September was the third consecutive month in which the US recorded over 1 million known cases of COVID-19, though the number of cases was down 17% from 1.45 million in August to 1.2 million. By the end of September, there were 7.17 million known cases of the virus since the beginning of the year, one for every 46 residents.
The case rate more than doubled in Wisconsin between August and September (from 389 cases per 100,000 residents up to 919 cases per 100,000). North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming each had more than a 70% increase in case rates. In North Dakota, there were 1,317 cases per 100,000 residents, the highest monthly rate of any state during the pandemic except for Florida in July (1,480 cases per 100,000 residents). The national case rate in September was 365 cases per 100,000 people, down 17.3% from August when there were 442 cases per 100,000 people.
