Covid-19 Deaths in U.S. Level Off as Delta Variant Surge Eases
The Delta coronavirus variant’s deadly surge through the U.S. is leveling off, another sign that the nation’s most recent wave has crested.
The seven-day average for daily reports of new Covid-19 deaths has hovered near 2,000 for more than a week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That follows a roughly two-month climb in deaths as Delta swept particularly aggressively through the southern U.S., hammering states like Florida, Louisiana and Arkansas. Public-health authorities and researchers say severe illness and deaths have largely hit unvaccinated populations.
The surge has pushed northward, hitting states from Idaho and Montana to Maine. But a cool-down in places like Florida has helped slow the national numbers, epidemiologists say. Cases started leveling off nationally in early September, leading to declines, and death trends tend to trail case trends by several weeks.
Public-health researchers have chalked up the easing in the Delta surge to a range of factors. Spikes in hospitalizations and deaths may have encouraged some people to take more precautions, and Delta’s rapid spread may have boosted the ranks of people who now carry immune protection from infections and helped slow down the spread of the virus, researchers say.
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And be done with this god forsaken pandemic!
