White House COVID Response Team Warns Against Complacency As COVID Metrics Plateau The U.S. COVID death toll rose to 535628. California and Texas, the two worst-affected states, reported more than 100 COVID deaths while New York had the most number of daily new infections - 7119. CDC's most recent data show that cases continue to fluctuate somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 per day, with the most recent seven-day average approximately 52,500 cases per day. The most recent seven-day average of hospital admissions has also declined to just more than 4,700 per day. The United States continues to see decline in deaths, with the latest seven-day average just over 1,200 deaths per day, far better than where the country was in early January.