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U.S. Covid cases finally start to dip from latest peak, but Delta variant still on

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September 13, 2021
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U.S. Covid cases finally start to dip from latest peak, but Delta variant still on


A CSULB student receives a first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine during a City of Long Beach Public Health Covid-19 mobile vaccination clinic at the California State University Long Beach (CSULB) campus on August 11, 2021 in Long Beach, California.

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Covid case counts in the U.S. are showing signs of easing off their latest highs but remain elevated as the country heads into a fall season of back-to-school and colder weather.

The seven-day average of daily Covid cases is about 144,300 as of September 12, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. That figure is down 12% over the past week and 14% from the most recent peak in case counts on September 1, when the country was reporting an average of roughly 167,600 cases per day. 

“This is good news,” said Dr. Arturo Casadevall, the Chair of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “It could represent that we have reached a peak and we are now on the way down.”

The U.S. has seen a handful of high points in case counts throughout the course of the pandemic. Average daily cases topped out at about 32,000 in April 2020 before subsiding, and peaked again at 67,000 per day in July 2020. The pace of new cases fell after Labor Day 2020 before surging to a record high of 251,000 cases per day in January. There was a steep drop-off after the holidays, with another jump to about 71,000 cases per day this past April.

“Every epidemic goes through cycles and eventually wanes, and that happens when you have enough people who are resistant,” Casadevall said, explaining that the combination of vaccinations and high number of infections this summer could be helping the country turn a corner.

But, he cautioned, the virus has been unpredictable. “I would just be careful declaring anything except some degree of optimism with the fact that the numbers are going down,” he added.

There are also some promising signs in Covid hospitalization and death tallies, which tend to lag case counts by a couple weeks or more as it takes time for people to become infected with the virus and then get sick enough to need urgent care.

About 100,600 Americans are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to a seven-day average of data from the Department of Health and Human Services, down 2% from a week ago. Though current hospitalizations had not been over 100,000 since January before crossing that level again in late August, the pace of new Covid patients entering the hospital is now on the decline. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows a 6.8% drop in the seven-day average of hospital admissions for the week ending September 10 compared to the week prior. 

The daily death toll, though, is still on the rise. The country is reporting an average of more than 1,600 Covid deaths per day over the past week, according to Hopkins data, a six-month high. Daily deaths are up 4% over the past week, however, a more modest increase than the weekly change of 26% reported two weeks ago. 

Still, the U.S. is heading into the fall season, with students back in school and colder weather approaching, driving people indoors where…



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