Biden chooses Inauguration Day as starting point for COVID decline despite earlier drop under Trump
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Biden picked Jan. 20, the day he became president, as a starting point to note the decline, but daily cases had peaked Jan. 8 and had drastically fallen already by that date, as they continued to fall.
"It's clearer than ever the more people we get vaccinated, the more success we're going to have in our fight against this virus," Biden said in remarks on the pandemic. "Since Jan. 20 ... the average daily cases are down from 184K to 19K. Below 20,000 for the first time since March of 2020. Average hospitalizations are down from 117,000 to 21,000. Death rates are down over 85%." "This didn't just happen by chance," the president continued. "We got to this moment because we took aggressive action from day one with a whole-of-government response."More Related News