Even As US COVID-19 Hospitalizations Fall, New Deaths Remain Higher

COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to trend downward, but the daily numbers of new cases and deaths remain much higher than the first two peaks of the pandemic in the spring and summer of 2020. With 2558 new deaths reporting in the last 24 hours, the total U.S. COVID-19 fatalities rose to 493098, as per Johns Hopkins University's latest data. 7-day average deaths fell below 2,000 for the first t