US COVID-19 cases climb steadily all week

Today in a White House news briefing, public health officials spotlighted the COVID-19 surges appearing across the country and reiterated the urgency for people to get vaccinated. Not only has the moving 7-day average of new daily cases increased every day this week, but Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, said that 10% of US counties were recently reclassified as 'high transmission risk' areas and 7% moved into the 'substantial risk' category. Many of these areas, she added, corresponded with low vaccination rates.