COVID-19 Pandemic Dissipates in the USA

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today the current 7-day moving average of daily new COVID-19 cases (35,442) decreased 23.6% compared with the previous 7-day moving average.

Compared with the highest peak on January 8, 2021, the current 7-day average decreased 85.8%.

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019, a total of 32,643,851 COVID-19 cases have been reported in the USA as of May 12th.

Furthermore, the current 7-day average hospital admission rate of 12.4% decrease from April 28–May 4th. COVID-19 related hospitalizations have been consistently decreasing since April 19, 2021.

Children ages 5-17 years have the lowest hospitalization rate of all age groups.

And the current 7-day moving average of new deaths (592) decreased 10.3% compared with the previous 7-day moving average, says the CDC.