Is Covid-19 ending in 2021?
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This 2020 electron microscope image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases - Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles which cause COVID-19.
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Justin Fox
, Bloomberg
Confirmed cases of Covid-19 and hospitalizations from the disease have been plummeting for weeks in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere
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Confirmed cases of Covid-19 and hospitalizations from the disease have been plummeting for weeks in the US and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. Deaths also are in decline. So it seems the long-dreaded fall-winter wave of the pandemic, which turned out to be just about as terrible as feared (with the exception that it wasn’t accompanied by much of any seasonal influenza), has finally crested.
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FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2021 file photo drivers wait in line at a mega COVID-19 vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Just a little more than a year after California announced its first case of coronavirus, the nation s most populous state is on the brink of recording its 40,000th death.Damian Dovarganes/AP
In recent weeks, U.S. coronavirus case data - long a closely watched barometer of the pandemic s severity - has sent some encouraging signals: The rate of newly recorded infections is plummeting from coast to coast and the worst surge yet is finally relenting. But scientists are split on why it is happening.