The average number of COVID-19 cases across the country per day was at just over 47,000 on Wednesday, which is the lowest it has been in seven weeks following the huge spike in infections in Sunbelt hotspot states
Daily Mail: Daily COVID-19 cases across the US drop to the lowest in almost two months but deaths plateau for three straight weeks as Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana and Nevada see uptick in fatalities
* The average number of COVID-19 cases across the country per day was at just over 47,000 on Wednesday, which is the lowest it has been in seven weeks after the Sunbelt surge in infections
* While infections have been steadily declining for a month now, deaths across the US have been plateauing for three weeks with an average of 1,000 Americans still dying per day
* As deaths continue to plateau, there has been an uptick of fatalities in some states including Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana and Nevada
* All four of those states have reported record single day spikes of deaths in the last two weeks but infections in those states have been on a downward trajectory
* The death tolls in these states are below the triple-digit rates reported in the populous hotspot states of California, Florida, Texas and Arizona and are not enough to reflect an uptick in the national trends
* It is the same for the handful of states that are currently seeing an increase in cases, including Hawaii, South Dakota, Kansas, Illinois, Maine, Vermont and Delaware
* Coronavirus infections in the US have now topped 5.5 million and more than 173,000 have died of COVID-19
New coronavirus cases in the United States have dropped on average to the lowest in almost two months but deaths have been plateauing for three weeks now as states including Oklahoma, Tennessee, Louisiana and Nevada see an uptick in fatalities.
The average number of COVID-19 cases across the country per day was at just over 47,000 on Wednesday, which is the lowest it has been in seven weeks following the huge spike in infections in Sunbelt hotspot states.
The current daily case average is down considerably from the record high of 77,000 cases reported on a single day back in mid-July.
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Update #1: New Covid-19 cases are declining across the US, official says, but that could quickly change if people aren't careful (CNN)
Update #2: The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Rolling Over: The Number Of US Hospitalizations Is Declining By 1 Percent Per Day (Zero Hedge)
WNU Editor: Cases in Canada where I live continue to stay low .... Coronavirus: Canada adds 383 new cases, 5 deaths on Thursday (Global News). Europe is starting to have a hard time .... Germany, Spain record highest daily coronavirus infection rate since April as cases surge across Europe (CNBC).
