Covid-19 Cases Rise To Nearly 110,000 Per Day As Millions Of Americans Travel For Memorial Day Weekend

Health experts urged Americans to take precautions after the seven-day average of new Covid-19 cases in the U.S. rose to over 100,000 per day.

Some counties in Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Florida are categorized as high in states in the Northeast by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The seven-day average for new hospital admissions in the week ending Wednesday was 3,609, up 24% from the week ending May 10.

According to the Department of Health and Human Services, the average number of beds occupied by Covid-19 patients stood at 3% of total capacity as of the week ending May 28, far below the 32% level during the peak of the winter omicron surge.

The seven-day average of deaths increased by 12%.

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39.2 million dollars. The number of people expected to travel this weekend is up from the previous year.

Health experts across the country urged people to take precautions to protect themselves and others over the holiday weekend, but many Americans have reported less concern over the virus in recent months. The percentage of people who said they were worried about contracting Covid-19 went down from February to April. More than half of the people who responded to the poll said they were not concerned about coronaviruses. The CDC loosened its mask guidelines in February in order to only recommend masks in areas with high levels of severe cases.

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The country has moved so far that the chair of the emergency medicine department at the university is only concerned about him.

The US Covid-19 cases have averaged 100,000 for the first time since February.

Memorial Day Weekend is likely to see Americans travel.