Covid-19 Picture Brightens in U.S., but Virus Isn’t Done Yet

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Many infectious-disease experts in the U.S. are cautiously optimistic—but that doesn’t mean it’s time to restart your pre-pandemic life. “This virus is smart, and it will come back to bite us.”

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Many infectious-disease experts in the U.S. are cautiously optimistic. Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths have all sharply dropped in recent weeks as the country comes down from its deadliest surge yet, and vaccination campaigns are getting more shots into people’s arms. Warmer weather is around the corner.remains fragile, public-health experts say.

“Things are tenuous. Now is not the time to relax restrictions,” Rochelle Walensky, director at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Friday. “We cannot get comfortable.” Covid-19 cases in the U.S. have declined for the past several weeks, with the seven-day average dropping 74% since the Jan. 11 peak, Dr. Walensky said Monday. Average daily hospital admissions, now 6,500 a day, have dropped 60% and are at their lowest point since the fall.

There is no single explanation for the declines, health authorities say, but the biggest contributor is likely changed behavior. People are likely taking more precautions, following the holiday season and a deadly winter in which the U.S. surpassed 500,000 total deaths from Covid-19. In addition,

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