In an effort to help keep schools open, the White House on Wednesday announced that five million rapid tests and five million lab-based PCR tests will be made available to schools starting this month.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said that the US is currently seeing a weekly average of more than 750,000 cases per day – a 47 percent increase from a week prior.
“The risk of hospitalisation remains low, especially among people who are up to date on their COVID vaccines,” Walensky said. “However, the staggering rise in cases over one million new cases each day has led to a high number of total hospitalisations,” she said.
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