What the US is seeing right now with Covid cases and deaths
The mixed metrics on Covid have created a contrasting, roses-and-thorns situation for Americans. Cases are declining and the burden on hospitals is lessening even as more than 2,400 people have died every day over the past seven days.
Cases now are a third of what they were three weeks ago, when the total peaked at about 800,000 new cases per day.
The number of hospitalized patients has declined in recent weeks, though it remains higher than during the Delta wave. There are about 110,000 people currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to JHU, a a 19% drop from last week.
New hospital admissions also are down compared to last week.
All those infections and hospitalizations have led to grim daily death tolls.
The US is now averaging 2,462 new deaths each day, according to JHU. This is a 3% increase from last week. Since the start of the pandemic, more than 900,000 people in the US have died of Covid-19.
