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U.S. COVID Cases Double in 3 Weeks As Delta Variant Spreads Intelligencer 18 hrs ago © AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images After months of precipitous decline in COVID-19 cases thanks to the vaccines made widely available in the United States, the number of new cases per day is on the rise again. According to data from John Hopkins, the seven-day average of positive tests doubled from 11,300 on June 23 to over 24,000 on Wednesday. The primary driver for the increase in cases is the more transmissable Delta variant, which in early July began to make up the majority of new infections in the U.S. “When the Delta strain appeared, it rapidly became the dominant strain,” pediatric infectious-disease expert Dr. Andrew T. Pavia told CNBC. “If you think about what it means to have a virus take over that rapidly, it means that it is the most fit virus, that it is spreading more efficiently, that it is spreading in pockets that are unvaccinated, and it’s causing a lot o

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