• Dr Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, said she knows that Americans are anxious to return to ‘normal’ life but her agency is still waiting for  hospitalizations and deaths to drop to make a decision
  • Covid cases in the U.S. are down 35% over the past week, with daily case averages falling below 400,000 for first time in 2022
  • Deaths are starting to crest as well, only up 6% in the past week after trending upwards 20% the week before, a sign they could still fall
  • Covid cases are dropping in 47 and 50 U.S. states as the Omicron variant seems to have burned out nationwide