WASHINGTON — The United States is seeing its fewest number of deaths from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, official data showed Tuesday.
The seven-day moving average of deaths was 545 on May 16, and “the last time our seven-day-average was this low was in March 2020, essentially since the pandemic began,” Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said at a briefing.
New daily cases are headed down in all US states, with the current average of 30,211 the lowest since last June — when there were severe testing shortages.
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