February 10, 2021

Covid-19 Cases Are Falling In The U.S. It Could Be A Calm Before A Variant-Driven Storm-STAT

While the numbers are going in the right direction, they are still at once unimaginably high levels. Even on the best days, more than 1,300 people die of Covid-19 in the U.S., and many more than that die on many days, according to the Covid Tracking Project. The country just logged fewer than 100,000 new confirmed infections in a single day for the first time since early November; some days in January had more than 200,000 cases. Experts fear the decline might just be temporary. A more transmissible — and, as evidence increasingly suggests, a seemingly deadlier — form of the coronavirus called B.1.1.7 is starting to build up in the U.S., even as overall case numbers come down. STAT, 02/10/2021