Covid-19 cases are declining but remain high among children. Here's what the US needs to do to end the surge
CNN
After weeks of a troubling Covid-19 surge across the US, infection rates are finally on the decline -- but experts say there's still work to be done before the tide can be turned, especially when cases remain exceptionally high among children.
"I am worried that we still have some tough days ahead," said Dr. Ashish Jha, the Dean at Brown University School of Public Health. "Even though we're doing reasonably well on vaccines, we've got to do much better because the Delta variant is very good at finding people who are unvaccinated and infecting them."
On average, about 89,000 people are reported to have new Covid-19 infections every day, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That number is about 30,000 less then the average from a week before, and experts are questioning if that decline is an ebb and flow of cases or the beginning of an end to high case counts.
The Republican-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Thursday morning will send a letter to US Attorney General Merrick Garland referring a potential criminal case involving former New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo to the Department of Justice, alleging he lied to Congress.