{"id":1551,"date":"2021-08-07T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-07T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2021-08-07T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T21:11:10","slug":"cdc-says-7-day-average-of-daily-u-s-covid-cases-surpassed-peak-seen-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"CDC says 7-day average of daily U.S. Covid cases surpassed peak seen last summer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:22px\"><strong>KEY POINTS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" style=\"font-size:22px\"><li>The seven-day average of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed the peak seen last summer when the nation didn\u2019t have an authorized vaccine, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle\u00a0Walensky said.<\/li><li>U.S. Covid cases, based on a seven-day moving average, reached 72,790 on Friday, according to data compiled by the CDC.<\/li><li>That\u2019s higher than the peak in average daily cases seen last summer, when the country was reporting about 68,700 new cases per day, according to the CDC.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/02\/cdc-says-7-day-average-of-daily-us-covid-cases-surpassed-peak-seen-last-summer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/08\/02\/cdc-says-7-day-average-of-daily-us-covid-cases-surpassed-peak-seen-last-summer.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KEY POINTS The seven-day average of daily coronavirus cases in the U.S. surpassed the peak seen last summer when the nation didn\u2019t have an authorized vaccine, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle\u00a0Walensky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,375,959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-epidemiology","category-news-of-the-day","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}