COVID case rates continued a steep decline over the last few weeks with the seven-day rolling average dropping to roughly 59,000 cases a day.
Highlights
- COVID case rates continued a steep decline over the last two weeks with the seven-day rolling average dropping to roughly 59,000 cases a day.
- The lowest case rates were seen in Nebraska with six cases per 100,000 people, followed by Delaware and Maryland.
- Montana and Alaska had the highest rates at 49 cases per cent and 47 in Alaska.
- Deaths nationwide dropped 18% from a 7-day roll-average of more than 2,300 per day.
- But they still average roughly 1,900 per day.
- The CDC in the last week loosened its mask guidance, recommending universal masking for less than a third of the U.S.