Are COVID-19 Cases And Deaths Falling In The U.S.?

Reason: Newly Recorded COVID-19 Cases and Deaths Are Falling in the

U.S.

It's not clear how long those hopeful trends will continue.

Newly recorded COVID-19 cases and deaths in the United States, which rose dramatically this fall, now seem to be declining. According to Worldometer's numbers, the seven-day average of daily new cases fell by 18 percent between December 18 and yesterday. The seven-day average of daily deaths has fallen by 19 percent since December 22.

Daily new cases in the U.S. are still five times as high as they were in mid-September, while daily deaths are three times as high as they were in mid-October. But the seven-day average of daily deaths, about 2,200 as of yesterday, has dropped slightly below last spring's peak after exceeding it for several weeks. The recent trends, assuming they continue, are a hopeful sign that the winter might not be quite as deadly as many people feared.

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WNU Editor: Too early to say. But the data is showing a small "levelling off".