* The CDC has advised unvaccinated Americans against traveling over the holiday weekend, worried the festivities could kick off another surge in cases.
* New cases this week have climbed to their highest point since January, averaging 166,000 per day over the last seven days.
* New cases, however, are rising at a substantially slower pace than in recent weeks, and many scientists predict they will soon start to decline.
The U.S. is heading into Labor Day weekend with just over four times as many Covid-19 cases and more than twice as many hospitalizations as at this time last year — despite having vaccinated 62% of the American population with at least one dose.
The U.S. and the world are nowhere near where health officials hoped, and thought, we would be 20 months into the pandemic — and more than eight months after vaccines that boasted efficacy rates around 95% were rolled out.
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WNU Editor: Wow! Four times as many Covid-19 cases and more than twice as many hospitalizations as at this time last year.
But what is different now when compared to last year is that it is the young who are ending in hospital .... More than 19,000 children are hospitalized with COVID in one week as cases among kids rise to 200,000 - though rate of infections is slowing (Daily Mail).
Update: This was not expected .... Coronavirus can spread among vaccinated people, so officials urge cautious Labor Day (LA Times).
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