The number of new coronavirus cases and hospitalizations across the nation continued to go down last week - although the death toll remains high, according to reports.
Cases dipped by 17 percent in the week through Jan. 27, while COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped 10 percent, the according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Deaths tend to lag behind drops in cases and hospitalizations, however.
"Even with cases falling across the US, we may have another week or more of very high death numbers to come," the researchers behind the project said.
In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that the seven-day positivity average for COVID-19 tests declined for the 23rd straight day in the Empire State.
Health experts also caution that a reduction in testing in recent weeks may be creating a false dip in the number of new cases, the tracking project said.
As of Sunday, the US had recorded more than 26 million cases and 440,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/31/us-covid-cases-hospitalizations-down-for-two-straight-weeks/
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