Today Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said the 7-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths—546—is now the lowest level recorded since March of 2020, when the pandemic was just beginning in most parts of the country."We should all have cautious optimism," Walensky said during a White House press briefing on the pandemic.The United States reported 29,387 new COVID-19 cases and 385 deaths yesterday, according to the New York Times.
Walensky said these numbers were last seen in June of 2020, and the 7-day average of hospitalizations was 3,500, down 18% from the previous week.In less than 1 week, 600,000 12- to 15-year-olds received their first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, and overall 4.1