Covid-19 Deaths in U.S. Hit Highest Level in Nearly a Year
Source: Barrons
Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. are at their highest level in almost a year, surpassing daily averages during the Delta variant’s peak, as the Omicron strain continues to spread in the country.
The seven-day average for newly reported Covid deaths reached 2,166 a day on Monday, up from 1,014 in November, before the Omicron strain was first detected in South Africa, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed.
The daily average of deaths reached 2,293 in Feb. 15, during last winter’s spike in coronavirus cases. That is still below the pandemic peak of an average 3,422 recorded by the CDC on Jan. 13, 2021.
“We’re still losing too many people a day for it to be in any way acceptable,” Jodie Guest, vice chair of the epidemiology department at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, told The Wall Street Journal.
To date, more than 871,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the U.S., Johns Hopkins University data showed.
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