These are the numbers health officials are watching at this point in the pandemic
In the midst of record COVID case numbers in the U.S., biostatistician Natalie Dean walks us through how to assess the metrics.
The U.S. is now averaging more than 400,000 new COVID-19 cases a day. This comes after a week where new case counts shattered the previous day's records again and again. And even those staggering numbers are probably an undercount.
Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told NPR last week that with so many people testing at home, it is hard to capture the true number of cases.
Many people are wondering how meaningful the
