Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned Sunday that infections remain high and precautions to slow the pandemic must remain in place.
The seven-day rolling average of new infections was well above 200,000 for much of December and went to roughly 250,000 in January, according to data kept by Johns Hopkins University. That average dropped below 100,000 on Friday (local time) for the first time since November 4. It stayed below 100,000 on Saturday.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press that the data was encouraging but that case numbers are still more than double what the United States was recording during the middle of last year.
“It’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place.”
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