May 6, 2021
COVID-19 cases at 7-month low
Editor's Note
The US averaged 48,000 new COVID-19 cases per day in the past week. This is a 15% improvement from last week, and the first time since October 2020 that average daily cases have fallen below 50,000.
Nationally, deaths from COVID-19 fell 3% to 4,819, the fewest deaths in a week since July 2020, and the average number of COVID-19 patients in hospitals fell 8%.
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