NEW YORK – U.S. deaths from COVID-19 are falling again as the nation continues to recover from the devastating winter surge, a trend that experts are cautiously hopeful will accelerate as more vulnerable people are vaccinated.
While new coronavirus infections and hospitalizations have plummeted, the decline in deaths from a January peak of about 4,500 hasn't been quite as steep.
But, now, after weeks of hovering around 2,000 daily deaths, that figure has dropped to about 1,400 U.S. lives lost each day to coronavirus. “I am encouraged by these data but we must remain vigilant," Dr.
Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at Friday's White House briefing. Public health experts say it's too soon to