29 states reported record number of new cases in October
These 29 states, as well as Puerto Rico, hit a record number of new cases in October, according to the COVID Tracking Project: Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
Forty-one states, as well as Washington, D.C., Guam and Puerto Rico are seeing an uptick in hospitalizations, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
![PHOTO: A person is wheeled into HSHS St. Vincent Hospital's Emergency Room amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Green Bay, Wis. Oct. 20, 2020.](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Health/hospital-rt-ml-201030_1604068011237_hpEmbed_3x2_992.jpg)
The only states seeing a decrease in hospitalizations are Delaware, Hawaii and Kansas.
In six states, hospitalization rates are flat: Alaska, California, Maine, Oregon, South Carolina and Vermont.
ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.