Daily new coronavirus cases tipped back over 100,000 on Thursday after having fallen below that threshold for the first time since the fall earlier in the week.
The overall trend in recent weeks is still positive, as cases and hospitalizations have fallen from their January highs.
But the 103,000 cases on Thursday, as tallied by the COVID Tracking Project, are a reminder that spread of the virus is still at extremely high levels, and more contagious variants threaten to start another surge upward.
Cases are down 23 percent from last week and 57 percent from the peak in January. Hospitalizations are down 42 percent from their high-water marks, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
But the toll of the virus remains heavy, with about 3,000 people dying every day. Deaths are a lagging indicator, so the drop in cases will take longer to show up there.
And the threat of more contagious variants, particularly one first identified in the United Kingdom, known as B.1.1.7, threatens to undo downward trends.
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— The Hill (@thehill) February 12, 2021
People having/attending Super Bowl parties didn’t help either.
And it would be nice if we had a coordinated system for distributing the vaccine. Trump left it up to the states and some like PA either have shortages or they distributed what they had to certain regions, leaving others out in the cold. PA is in the process of investigating its mess of a distribution, but I think the fault lies with both the state and the federal governments.
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