Are we nearing the end of the COVID pandemic?
pandemic is in sight, the leader of the World Health Organization declared Wednesday, with deaths at their lowest level worldwide since the new coronavirus first began to spread in March 2020.
About 11,000 people around the world died from COVID during the week of Sept. 5 through Sept. 11. That was a drop of 22% from the previous week, the WHO reported. Weekly case numbers also fell the previous week, by 28%, to about 3.1 million. In contrast, deaths in the United States are averaging 478 per day, higher than in July 2021 when the average was 168 deaths per day and also higher than in June 2022 when the average was 258 deaths per day,The trend is a bit different for U.S. COVID case counts: They are now at 73,000 per day, down by 14% over the last two weeks.Response Coordinator Ashish Jha said that new bivalent booster shots -- targeting both the original virus strain and the BA.4 and BA.
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