A woman holds a candle in commemoration of World AIDS Day and COVID-19 deaths at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull, on Dec. 1, 2020 in New York City. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images) RELATED: CDC urges Americans to stay home for holidaysAdvertisementHealth authorities had warned that the numbers could fluctuate strongly before and after Thanksgiving, as they often do around holidays and weekends, when because of reporting delays, figures often drop, then rise sharply a few days later as state and local agencies catch up with the backlog.Still, deaths, hospitalizations and cases in the U.S.
have been on a fairly steady rise for weeks, sometimes breaking records for days on end.RELATED: Coronavirus restrictions by state: What you.