Coronavirus Cases Continue Decreasing in the USA

The U.S. CDC published Key Updates for Week #4, on February 5, 2021. Nationally, surveillance indicators tracking levels of SARS-CoV-2 circulation, associated illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths remain elevated but show decreasing trends in recent weeks. The overall percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, decreased from 11.2% during week #3 to 9.7% during week #4. 

However, both COVID-19-associated hospitalizations and pneumonia, influenza, and COVID-19 (PIC) mortality for the most recent weeks may increase as more data are received by the CDC.