4 years before the pandemic struck last spring.
The metric has mostly languished in the 80s and
90s since then, except for two month this fall.
Average daily COVID-19 deaths and cases have
plummeted in the past few weeks. Virus deaths
have fallen from more than 4,000 reported on
some days in January to an average of fewer
than 1,900 per day.
While winter weather has hamstrung
vaccination efforts the past couple of weeks,
supply is catching up with need and experts
expect distribution to accelerate further as the
weather improves.