JUST IN: US Covid Daily Deaths Reach Record Low Since March 2020

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The U.S. reported 222 new deaths Sunday from Covid, the lowest number of daily deaths since late March of last year.

“Just 222 COVID deaths reported in the US yesterday, which is the fewest since March 23, 2020,” FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver tweeted Monday, linking to a chart from Our World in Data based on information from Johns Hopkins University, one of the leading sources on coronavirus data since the earliest days of the pandemic.

Just 222 COVID deaths reported in the US yesterday, which is the fewest since March 23, 2020. https://t.co/WbBcN2canq pic.twitter.com/FAyvg7tp4Z

— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) April 5, 2021

It’s worth noting that daily coronavirus reporting numbers tend to be less reliable on weekends and holidays. Over Christmas, for example, there were fewer reported daily deaths and new cases, followed by spikes in both. The current seven-day rolling average of coronavirus deaths is currently closer to levels seen in parts of June, July, and October of last year, according to Our World in Data’s Covid-19 Data Explorer.

Although more than 100 million Americans have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, some experts, including CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, have expressed concerns over a possible fourth wave of infections, due to variants of the virus that have been detected around the country.

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