Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 18April 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
New US cases of the coronavirus continued to inch a bit higher this week, while deaths attributed to the virus continued to fall. New Covid infections during the week ending April 17th were 2.2% higher than during the week ending April 10th, and up 26.5% from the 7 days ending March 16th (a six month low), but still down 72.6% from the early January peak. US Covid deaths were down 2.5% from the prior week, and down 78.7%
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 6.7 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago and U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 24.8 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 74,312
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 909
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 59.3 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved and deaths improved
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