For the first time in several months, the United States has recorded fewer than 100,000 new cases of COVID-19.
On Sunday, just over 96,000 new cases were reported, a major decrease from the 113,927 cases recorded less than a week ago. This marks the first time since early November that less than 100,000 new COVID cases were reported.
However, this new data didn’t show updates from several different states because some do not update their weekend reports, while others were said to be having “technical difficulties.”
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.5M tests, 96k cases, 81,439 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 1,471 deaths. pic.twitter.com/4Y0v3YEcVS
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) February 8, 2021
However, these recent numbers still reflect a positive trend as data from the COVID Tracking Project show that new cases, hospitalizations, and total deaths decreased last week.
According to the project, “For the seven-day period running January 28 to February 3, weekly new cases were down more than 16 percent over the previous week and dropped below one million for the first time since the week of November 5. This is still an astonishing number of new cases a week, but far better than the nearly 1.8 million cases reported the week of January 14.”
Currently, the 81,439 people hospitalized by the virus is 40,000 less than what it was in early January, but still much higher than it was before the winter holidays triggered a case surge.
“We are still far above the peak hospitalization numbers, around 60k, during the April and July surges,” the CTP posted on Twitter.
There were still over 1,400 new deaths reported on Sunday, which lead some to believe that it may have been caused by Super Bowl LV acting as a ‘superspreader event.’
