The nation's top federal health official says the U.S. is moving closer to the point that COVID-19 is no longer a 'constant crisis.'
WASHINGTON -- The nation's leading health officials said Wednesday that the U.S. is moving closer to the point that COVID-19 is no longer a"constant crisis" as more cities, businesses and sports venues began lifting pandemic restrictions around the country.
With the omicron variant waning and Americans eager to move beyond the virus, government and business leaders have been out ahead of the CDC in ending virus measures in the last week, including ordering workers back to offices, eliminating mask mandates and no longer requiring proof of vaccine to get into restaurants, bars and sports and entertainment arenas.
Health Commissioner Cheryl Bettigole said Philadelphia's average daily case count had dropped to 189 cases per day in the city of more than 1.5 million people. Bettigole said the plunge in infections has been steeper in Philadelphia than elsewhere in the state or the country, making it easier to lift the vaccine mandate for restaurants and other businesses announced in mid-December and that just fully went into effect this month.
Several states with indoor mask mandates announced last week they would be lifted in coming weeks, also citing promising numbers.
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