“July 10 – BRUISED RED – Updated Color Scale: As a country we’ve reached a record number of cases. We’ve added a new color to the scale: “Bruised Red”. There were extremes that were not captured in our original scale. Our scale also has been adjusted to put more weight on “new cases per million” and “positivity”…July 9 – Color Scale Will Be Updated – Unfortunately when a map becomes all “red”, it becomes less useful. We will be making an update shortly that will adjust our color scale and how each state is graded. The shift will put more weight on “new cases per million” and “positivity”. It will continue to include ILI, ICU availability, and testing throughput. It will deemphasize case growth…”