COVID-19 Forecasts: Cases: December 23, 2020

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.). Division of Viral Diseases.
• Description:
  Updated Dec. 23, 2020
  
  Interpretation of Forecasts of New Cases
  
  • This week, CDC received forecasts of new reported COVID-19 cases over the next 4 weeks from 29 modeling groups that were included in the ensemble forecasts.
  
  • This week’s national ensemble predicts that 1,200,000 to 2,000,000 new cases will likely be reported in the week ending January 16, 2021.
  
  • The state- and territory-level ensemble forecasts predict that over the next 4 weeks, the number of new reported cases per week will likely increase in 6 jurisdictions and decrease in 12 jurisdictions, which are indicated in the forecast plots below. Trends in numbers of future reported cases are uncertain or predicted to remain stable in the other states and territories.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Forecasting Hospitalization Pandemics Public Health Surveillance
• Series:
  Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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