US Coronavirus cases declined below 100,000 but no escape from precautions.
US coronavirus daily average cases declined below 100,000 for the first time in months,but there is no sign of mitigation as according to experts infections remain high and precautions to slow the pandemic must remain in place.
Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told NBC’s Meet the Press.“We are still at about 100,000 cases a day. We are still at around 1,500 to 3,500 deaths per day. The cases are more than two-and-a-half-fold times what we saw over the summer.” he concluded.
According to Johns Hopkins University, The seven-day rolling average of new infections was well above 200,000 for much of December and went to roughly 250,000 in January. That average dropped below 100,000 on Friday for the first time since 4 November. It stayed below 100,000 on Saturday.
She added that new variants, including one first detected in the UK that appears to be more transmissible and has already been recorded in more than 30 states, will likely lead to more cases and more deaths. “It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place.”
The CDC released guidance on Friday outlining mitigation strategies necessary to reopen schools or to keep them open. Some teachers have expressed concern about returning to the classroom without having been vaccinated, but the guidelines do not say that’s necessary.
