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DC Area’s New Covid-19 Infections Going Into Thursday

A look at how coronavirus cases are trending in the Washington region.

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The Washington region reported 962 new Covid-19 infections going into Thursday, a dramatic decline from the previous day and well below the record high of 2,258 reached in early May.

All told, the Washington region’s total number of confirmed cases increased to 53,222 going into Thursday, according to data pulled from daily updates to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center. (Washingtonian’s full data set can be found here.)

To examine the effect of the coronavirus on the area, Washingtonian examined only the data from the eight relevant jurisdictions that comprise the metro area.

Click here to see the full data set procured by Washingtonian, including county by county.

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Luke Mullins, a former Washingtonian senior writer, is coauthor of The Wolves of K Street: The Secret History of How Big Money Took Over Big Government.

Benjamin Wofford
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Benjamin Wofford is a contributing editor at Washingtonian.