No specific editorial point here, just an interest in seeing how each state has done in controlling Covid during the Omicron surge. The classification of the states is simply fyi. Those classified as blue voted for the democratic candidate in all six of the most recent presidential elections, those classified as red did the same for republican candidates. Purple states broke any such pattern at least once since 2000.

Source: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/