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    COVID-19 Deaths Are Still Rising

    Hospitalizations are falling, but they are still higher than at any point before this current surge.
    by The COVID Tracking Project Jan 28, 2021 5 minutes
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    Amid a slow and uneven rollout of vaccines and increasing concern about new variants of SARS-CoV-2, the pandemic indicators we’ve been watching since March reveal that outbreaks are easing all over the country. For the second week in a row, new cases and COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped nationally—17 percent for cases and 10 percent for hospitalizations—though cases and hospitalizations remain much higher than at any point before the fall/winter surge. Tests have also declined, which is not what we’d like to see—drops in tests may mean that more cases are being missed—but this decline follows two weeks of testing data that may have been artificially elevated by the resolution of holiday-reporting backlogs, so it’s difficult to interpret.

    Reported deaths rose 7 percent this week, with states reporting a total of 22,797 lives lost to

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