| As the United States continues on a path to near pre-pandemic normalcy, experts remain concerned over low vaccination rates and the spread of variants, which could potentially exacerbate a pandemic that has upended life for more than a year and inflicted a damaging toll on Americans and the world.
New York and California, which were home to some of the nation’s deadliest virus hotspots last year, are fully reopening in time for the summer as Sunday marks the 500th day since the first known COVID-19 death in the U.S. California officials announced in April 2020 that a 57-year-old woman who died on Feb. 6 that year passed away from coronavirus complications, more than three weeks before what was previously believed to be the nation’s first death in Washington state.
Since then, more than 600,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, according to the most recent data from Johns Hopkins University. Recent months brought overall fewer cases, hospitalizations and deaths — progress health experts attribute to vaccines.
With more than 300 million total vaccine doses administered as of this week, the U.S. has gone through major coronavirus milestones worthy of celebration: From reporting a current seven-day moving average of 13,997 daily new cases this week compared to the peak of 251,834 cases on Jan. 10, to administering an average of more than 3 million vaccine doses per day in April, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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