YONKERS, NY - APRIL 06: Medics wearing personal protective equipment (PPE), intubate a gravely ill patient with COVID-19 symptoms at his home on April 06, 2020 in Yonkers, New York. The man, 92, was barely breathing when they arrived, and they performed a rapid sequence intubation (RSI), on him before transporting him by ambulance to St. John's Riverside Hospital. The medics (L-R) are Capt. AJ Briones (paramedic), Michelle Melo (EMT), Carlos Cabrera (EMT). The Empress EMS employees treat and transport patients to hospitals throughout Westchester County and parts of New York City, the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. (Image: Getty)
According to Johns Hopkins University the seven-day national average of COVID-19 cases officially dropped below 100,000 on February 12 and remained below 100,000 the following day. The daily average has not been below 100,000 since November 4.
Experts note that the infection rate is still extremely high, and that while the statistic is cause for celebration, COVID-19 precautions must stay in place. Director of the Center for Disease Control Dr. Rochelle Walensky told NBC that “we are still at about 100,000 cases a day. We are still at around 1,500 to 3,500 deaths per day. The cases are more than two-and-a-half fold times what we saw over the summer – it’s encouraging to see these trends coming down, but they’re coming down from an extraordinarily high place.”
Johns Hopkins now records that the United States alone has seen more than 27.2 million infections and 484,000 deaths due to COVID-19.
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