COVID-19 Pandemic Decreases in the USA, Increases in Europe

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) continue to report significant decreases in the COVID-19 pandemic. As of March 26, 2021, the CDC confirmed the number of COVID-19 related fatalities has continued to decline, a trend observed over the past 10 weeks.

The current 7-day moving average of new fatalities (946) in the USA decreased by 72% compared with the highest peak on January 13, 2021.

And hospital admissions of patients with confirmed COVID-19 decreased 71.5% from the national peak on January 9, 2021.

Furthermore, the CDC reported 48,695,172 individuals are now fully-vaccinated against COVID-19.

People who are fully vaccinated represent the number of people who have received the second dose in a two-dose COVID-19 vaccine series or one dose of the single-shot Janssen COVID-19 vaccine, says the CDC.

Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on March 23, 2021, coronavirus cases continued to rise for a fourth consecutive week, with just under 3.3 million new cases reported in the last week.

Concurrently, the number of new fatalities reported plateaued after a six-week decrease, with just over 60,000 new fatalities reported. The European Region and the Southern Region of the Americas continue to account for nearly 80% of all the COVID-19 cases and fatalities, stated the WHO.