COVID-19 has hit some countries far harder than others ... relative to the size of the outbreak in each country. So in these charts we use a rolling 7-day average of the new infections countries ...

Preliminary data from the CDC shows there were 627 deaths from COVID-19 in Washington last year, for a crude rate of 8 per 100,000 people, writes FYI Guy.

Japan confirmed more than 5,000 new COVID-19 cases on Jan. 7, topping 5,000 for the first time since Sept. 17 last year, as a surging wave of infections continued sweeping across the nation.