LOS ANGELES - Over the last few weeks, the number of coronavirus cases and deaths have continued to decline amid increased efforts to get the American population vaccinated.
But the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stressed Friday that the trajectory of the pandemic is still concerning, as emerging variants of COVID-19 could be stalling progress in beating the virus back."The latest data suggest that these declines may be stalling, potentially leveling off at still a very high number," Rochelle Walensky, the director of the CDC, said during a White House coronavirus task force briefing Friday."We, at the CDC, consider this a very concerning shift in the trajectory," Walensky continued. "In fact, cases have.