Asked at a Wednesday briefing of the White House pandemic response team about when Americans could expect life to return to normal, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky offered a somewhat cryptic but revealing response.
U.S. COVID death toll tops fall peak and is higher than in other wealthy countries, as global deaths climb 9% in latest week
The average number of daily deaths from COVID-19 in the U.S. has climbed above 2,600, according to a New York Times tracker, now higher than the peak surge in the fall when delta was the dominant variant and close to the peak last winter, before vaccines were available.Going without masks in public, especially in Europe and North America: Step by step, many countries are easing their COVID-19 restrictions amid hopes the omicron wave may have passed its peak.