Columbia/Boone County PHHS
In a community briefing with local officials held on Wednesday afternoon, Columbia Mayor Brian Treece said the county has reached a new milestone: the number of vaccinated people in Boone County, over 21,000 people, officially surpassed the number of people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 over the past year.
The number of positive cases has decreased and the weekly percent increase in total cases has been on decline for the past four weeks. The 14-day rolling case average has also been the lowest its been since the end of October 2020. Hospitalizations of COVID-19 cases in Boone County has also been on a downward trend since the beginning of December.Â
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Coronavirus live updates: US death toll tops 350,000
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By ROSA SANCHEZ, ERIN SCHUMAKER, IVAN PEREIRA, EMILY SHAPIRO and MEREDITH DELISO, ABC News
(NEW YORK) A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 83.3 million people worldwide and killed over 1.8 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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US reports nearly 300,000 new cases in all-time high
There were a staggering 299,087 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the United States on Saturday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
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