While the 7-day average of new Covid cases in the U.S. is trending down, the daily number of new cases topped 1 million for only the second time in the 733 days since the first infection was reported stateside.
Monday numbers posted today by the CDC and Johns Hopkins University came in at 1,140,580 and 1,007,511 new daily cases, respectively.
The only other day that compares, according to the CDC was January 10 of this year.Newly-announced Monday numbers are generally skewed either lower or higher by weekend reporting delays.
That’s why another day widely reported to have seen 1 million-plus new cases, January 3, no longer appears that high on the CDC’s historical graph of new daily cases.
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