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U.S. cases ‘going in the right direction,’ Fauci says
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By Bryan Pietsch
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Annabelle Timsit
Today at 3:38 a.m. EST|Updated today at 10:12 a.m. EST
The rate of new coronavirus cases in the United States is “going in the right direction,” Anthony S. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said Sunday.
Pointing to other countries that have experienced sharp drops in cases after a surge of infections from the omicron variant, Fauci, speaking on ABC’s “This Week,” said that “things are looking good.” Still, he cautioned that the virus “has certainly surprised us in the past” and that cases are still rising in the South and West, where omicron outbreaks started later than in the Northeast.
New coronavirus cases have fallen 14 percent in the United States in the past week, based on a seven-day average,although average daily cases, at more than 695,000, are still not far from the U.S. peak of about 762,000. Covid-19 hospitalizations are also close to their peak, straining short-staffed hospitals, but they are also starting to fall.Covid-19 deaths, which often lag days to weeks behind outbreaks, are still increasing nationally.
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