Minnesota was #1 (new Covid cases per capita, 7 day average). Updated 11/20

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3. Oh darn, we've snatched the little brown jug away from Michigan, we're number 1 again

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in daily new cases per capita, 7 day moving average.

And accelerating -- the 14 day change is 84% (7 day average thru Tuesday vs. 7 days average 14 days before)

7 day positivity up a bit more to 10.5%

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/11/17/covid-in-minnesota-46-more-deaths-reported-more-than-1380-currently-hospitalized/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/minnesota-covid-cases.html

Today's (Wednesday's) report is 3,457 new cases. That's considerably below the NYTimes 4,484 7-day-case-average thru Tuesday, so that will help. The previous Wednesday was 5,265 cases, and that will drop out of the 7 day average next time NYTimes does an update (that 5,265 cases included a lot of backlogged cases. The previous 2 Wednesdays before that were 1,799 three weeks ago, and 2,941 two weeks ago.)

Edited to add Nov 18 2:24 AM NYTimes has Michigan at number 1 again. Wednesday's data now included at NYTimes and it dropped the 7 day average a bit in Minnesota (because last Wednesday, which dropped out of the 7 day window, was so much higher than this Wednesday's). Anyway, I think this drop is a very temporary, because last Wednesday was anomalously high due to a backlog.