COVID-19 Related Fatalities Increased Last Week

The U.S. CDC reported on April 16, 2021, COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are increasing in some areas of the country. The reasons for these increases are various and complicated but potentially related to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants that are becoming predominant in some communities.

Although the 7-day moving average of daily new deaths has generally decreased for the past 13 weeks, the recent 7-day average increased 10.8% compared with the prior week.

As of April 14, 2021, a total of 561,356 COVID-19 deaths have been reported to the CDC.

'As the access to vaccines for all Americans increases, we have reason to be hopeful. However, until more of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated, consistent use of prevention strategies will help to limit the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19.'

'Even if you have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking these everyday precautions in public places,' says the CDC.

On April 15, 2021, the U.S. CDC reported 78,498,290 people representing about 23.6% of the US population, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with one of the authorized, experimental vaccines.

Our World in Data COVID Vaccination reported the USA leads all countries with about 195 million doses administered, followed by China with 175 million and India with 115 million.