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19 states set single-day coronavirus records this week

17 July 2020
 Dan Ackermann
Data: COVID Tracking Project and state health department data compiled by Axios; Map: Danielle Alberti and Naema Ahmed/Axios

19 states this week set new highs for coronavirus infections recorded in a single day, according to the COVID Tracking Project and state health departments. 11 states surpassed records set just last week.

The big picture: The coronavirus continues to spread nearly unchecked across almost the entire country, Axios' Sam Baker and Andrew Witherspoon report.

  • Friday: Ohio (1,679) and Texas (14,916), beating its Tuesday record.
  • Thursday: Alaska (401), beating its Sunday record; Iowa (841); Idaho (727); New Mexico (327); Nevada (1,447); Oregon (704), beating its Saturday record; Utah (954).
  • Wednesday: Montana (144); Oklahoma (1,075), beating its Tuesday record.
  • Tuesday: No record highs.
  • Monday: Kansas (1,447); Tennessee (3,314).
  • Sunday: Arkansas (1,564); Florida (15,300).
  • Saturday: Missouri (1,134); North Carolina (2,462); South Carolina (2,280); Wisconsin (981).

Between the lines: The only states in the U.S. to see a meaningful decline in coronavirus cases in the past week were Maine and Arizona, per an Axios tracker.

  • 16 states broke their single-day coronavirus infection records last week.

Flashback: "Right now, if you look at the number of cases, it's quite disturbing," NIAID director Anthony Fauci told medical journal JAMA on July 3. "We're setting records, practically every day, of new cases in the numbers that are reported. That clearly is not the right direction."

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include COVID Tracking Project (CTP) data, in addition to data taken directly from state health departments. CTP began reporting non-resident cases as part of Alaska's total case count on July 16.

Go deeper: Coronavirus cases skyrocketing among communities of color

Transcripts show George Floyd told police "I can't breathe" over 20 times

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Newly released transcripts of bodycam footage from the Minneapolis Police Department show that George Floyd told officers he could not breathe more than 20 times in the moments leading up to his death.

Why it matters: Floyd's killing sparked a national wave of Black Lives Matter protests and an ongoing reckoning over systemic racism in the United States. The transcripts "offer one the most thorough and dramatic accounts" before Floyd's death, The New York Times writes.

The state of play: The transcripts were released as former officer Thomas Lane seeks to have the charges that he aided in Floyd's death thrown out in court, per the Times. He is one of four officers who have been charged.

  • The filings also include a 60-page transcript of an interview with Lane. He said he "felt maybe that something was going on" when asked if he believed that Floyd was having a medical emergency at the time.

What the transcripts say:

  • Floyd told the officers he was claustrophobic as they tried to get him into the squad car.
  • The transcripts also show Floyd saying, "Momma, I love you. Tell my kids I love them. I'm dead."
  • Former officer Derek Chauvin, who had his knee on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes, told Floyd, "Then stop talking, stop yelling, it takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk."

Read the transcripts via DocumentCloud.