It's the first time daily cases have dropped below 100,000 since early August, but health experts still urge caution as we head into colder months.
Cases have been steadily declining since the country's most recent peak of about 172,500 average daily infections on Sept. 13.About 69,000 Americans are currently in the hospital with Covid, down from nearly 104,000 on Sept. 1, according to HHS.
"I think right now, it looks like we're in for a relatively tough fall with sustained transmission of Covid in our communities," said Dr. Barbara Taylor, an assistant dean and professor of infectious diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. She said the still-high infection rates means the country is not yet out of the woods, though she said it was encouraging that cases weren't surging again.
While the decline in deaths is reassuring, the daily number of U.S. fatalities is still "substantial and tragic," said Dr. Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The major difference in 2021, of course, is the emergence of Covid vaccines. Almost two-thirds of the U.S. population has received at least one vaccine dose and 56.2% is fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"It gets cold, everybody goes indoors, we close windows, we have less air circulation, we have to be in places that are heated, and that is going to increase transmission under any circumstance," Taylor said. Falling cases in the south are contributing heavily to the overall U.S. downward trend, according to former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, who said that delta may still be working its way through some parts of the country.
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