By David Hall
Newly reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. continued to decline, along with hospitalizations, as more people in the country received vaccinations.
The U.S. reported just over 46,000 new cases for Sunday, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University that was published early Monday. The data may update later. Sunday’s figure was down from the 58,062 cases reported the previous day. The nation’s death toll topped 525,000, according to Johns Hopkins data.
Hospitalizations due to Covid-19 across the country totaled 40,212, the lowest level since Oct. 20, according to the Covid Tracking Project. Sunday’s total is down nearly 70% from Jan. 6, when hospitalizations peaked at 132,474. The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive-care units also fell, to 8,137, down from 8,409 the previous day.
Around 17.7% of the U.S. population has now been given at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Vaccination levels vary by state. Nearly a quarter of Alaska residents have received at least one dose, and 15.6% are fully vaccinated. While in Georgia, 13.4% of residents have received at least a single dose and 8.5% have completed their vaccinations.
Some large employers are getting permission from public-health officials to administer vaccines, hoping to speed up inoculations of their employees. Among them, pharmaceutical company AbbVie Inc. has begun giving staff at its North Chicago headquarters doses, according to people familiar with the matter, giving priority to those over 65 years old and then workers in operations and manufacturing.
Abbott Laboratories also has begun giving doses at its nearby headquarters to eligible workers, such as those in manufacturing, food service and daycare, a spokeswoman said, and Tyson Foods Inc. has delivered doses to staff at its Joslin, Ill., beef plant and to some workers in Iowa, a spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the nation’s top infectious-diseases expert reiterated warnings against dropping Covid-19 restrictions too soon. “We’re going in the right direction. We just need to hang in there a bit longer,” Anthony Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser on the pandemic, said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
He said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in coming days would be issuing guidance on what types of activities are now permissible for people who have been vaccinated.
His comments came on the heels of announcements by the states of Texas and Mississippi that they were lifting state mask mandates and business-capacity restrictions. Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” said it was never a realistic goal to completely get rid of the virus, and that the state has focused instead on making sure the health system had the capacity to provide people with quality care.
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