COVID-19 Positivity Rates Surge to 10.8 Percent in America with 0.8 Percent of Deaths Now Attributable to COVID-19
Nikhil Prasad Fact checked by:Thailand Medical News Team Sep 16, 2025 3 months, 3 weeks, 2 hours, 21 minutes ago
Medical News: The United States has reached a new juncture in its ongoing COVID-19 trajectory, with test positivity rates hovering around 10.8%, according to the latest surveillance figures from health authorities. Meanwhile, about 0.8% (up from 0.6 percent the previous week) of all deaths in the country are currently being officially attributed to COVID-19, signaling that while transmission remains high, mortality linked directly to the disease is still a concern.
COVID-19 Positivity Rates Surge to 10.8 Percent in America with 0.8 Percent of Deaths Now Attributable to COVID-19
In recent weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has flagged test positivity—the share of all COVID-19 tests returning positive—as an early warning indicator, and the current rate of 10.8% exceeds many earlier thresholds of concern. Health officials are closely watching this rise together with hospital admissions and trends in emergency department visits. This
Medical News report indicates that as infection levels are growing in certain states, hospitalizations and deaths are also rising.
State-by-state analyses show mixed trends: in around 19 states, the effective reproduction rate suggests infections are rising; in another 22, they are stable or declining; and a portion of states are somewhere in between. Emergency department usage for respiratory illness and COVID-19 in particular has also contributed to understanding how the disease is impacting communities beyond raw case counts.
While death from COVID-19 is rising as a proportion of all deaths, experts warn that latent risk remains—especially for vulnerable populations. Variants of the virus continue to circulate, and genomic surveillance is being used to track those that may behave differently in terms of transmissibility or severity.
The XFG variant and its spawns are current the predominant strains across the United States.
Conclusion: The current situation in the United States reflects a disease still very much in circulation—test positivity is significantly elevated, and transmission is rising in many areas—along with a growing percentage of deaths directly attributed to COVID-19. The correlation between spread and mortality suggests that while many may contract the virus, the vulnerable are at greater risk of dying of it. Continued monitoring of positivity, hospital strain, variant spread, and vulnerable group impacts will be essential to gauge whether this relative improvement holds or begins to reverse.
The latest U.S. CDC COVID-19 data can be found here:
https://www.cdc.gov/covid/php/surveillance/index.html
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