I respond to a Covid questionnaire daily. Since starting to answer the daily questions (a couple of minutes on a cell app) the estimated active cases in my county remained about 45,000 for months. In the past few weeks, the number has risen to about 56,500; however, my county is only reporting about 5500 current confirmed cases. Moreover, my county reports about 47,000 total confirmed cases.

The cell app questionnaire was developed at Stanford, I think. The questionnaire report and confirmed cases are not consistent, and IDK what that means. I am sure confirmed cases are lower than actual, because some people have no symptoms. The 56,500 reported by the questionnaire may or may not include cases without symptoms, but it IMO it does, which would account for some of the discrepancy, but not all of the difference between 5500 and 56,500.

Red states have become hotbeds for new coronavirus infections.