COVID-19 Cases Fall by 20 Percent Across the US in Past Week: CDC
District of Columbia | October 1, 2021
The number of new COVID-19 cases reported across the United States over the past week fell by about 20 percent, according to data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The seven-day average of cases as of Sept. 28 was about 107,600; on Sept. 21, the seven-day average was about 128,700, the data show. Starting in August, the number of cases spiked due to the spread of the so-called Delta variant, federal health officials have said.
Deaths from COVID-19 have also dropped, according to the CDC, showing that the seven-day average on Sept. 28 was about 1,425.
The report comes as some health officials have suggested that the current surge of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, may be plateauing or coming to an end.
Scott Gottlieb, who led the Food and Drug Administration from 2017 to 2019 and now sits on Pfizer’s board, told CNN on Sept. 27 that the Delta wave could be the last major surge of COVID-19 infection in the United States. Some experts had publicly feared the so-called Mu variant could take hold in the United States, but data from Outbreak.info this week suggested that there have been no reported cases of the strain over the past seven days….(Excerpts from the Epoch Times)