Outbreaks of Variants Creates Infection Rate Mirroring The Summer Of 2020
The rate of new U.S. Covid cases remains elevated as the country continues efforts to ramp up its vaccination campaign.
"The country is reporting about 71,200 new Covid cases per day, based on a seven-day average of data from Johns Hopkins University. That is far below the nation’s winter peak but in line with levels seen during the summer surge, when average daily cases topped out at more than 67,000...
In Michigan — the state experiencing the worst outbreak in the variants, 4th Surge,vcountry on a new cases per capita basis — infection counts keep rising. The state is reporting a seven-day average of nearly 7,900 daily new cases, approaching the state’s pandemic high of more than 8,300 per day recorded in December."
