COVID MANDATES ENDING: Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Tuesday set the date for when the city will end its mask mandate and vaccine requirement for certain indoor spaces.
, a sharp downturn from around 800,850 five weeks ago on Jan. 16, according to Johns Hopkins University data.
COVID-19 hospitalizations are down from a national seven-day average of 146,534 on Jan. 20 to 80,185 the week ending in Feb 13, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention COVID data tracker. Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine said Sunday that the downturn in case numbers and hospitalizations is encouraging. He agreed that it likely has a lot to do with herd immunity.
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