{"id":32139,"date":"2021-02-26T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32139"},"modified":"2021-02-26T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T00:45:09","slug":"some-not-great-news-from-the-cdc-director-cdc-director-warns-decline-in-covid-19-cases-may-be-stalling-in-concerning-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32139","title":{"rendered":"Some not great news from the CDC director: CDC director warns decline in COVID-19 cases &#8216;may be stalling&#8217; in &#8216;concerning shift&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wvvzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdddsgsf_bggpggflfypqpjfbpzgg.html?a=&amp;b=37215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/wvvzktfqjddbhthdbwgjjbzzjfbmdfdyysjqtnmdddsgsf_bggpggflfypqpjfbpzgg.html?a%3D%26b%3D37215&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1614468899168000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFsP7VC3VpFmDJe6AzEh6nOQ5Uw6w\">Rochelle Walensky<\/a>\u00a0warned Friday that recent declines in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths &#8220;may be stalling,&#8221; calling the trends a &#8220;very concerning shift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CDC data shows the number of new cases has declined dramatically in recent weeks, from a peak of about 250,000 per day in mid-January to about 60,000 per day.<\/p>\n<p>But now after weeks of falling, the number of new cases has started ticking back up in recent days, and are still at a very high level overall, at about 66,000 new cases per day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The latest data suggest that these declines may be stalling, potentially leveling off at still a very high number,&#8221; Walensky said during a White House briefing. &#8220;We at CDC consider this a very concerning shift in the trajectory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several states have been relaxing restrictions in areas like restaurant capacity, and in some cases mask mandates. Walensky urged states not to lift restrictions, without naming any in particular.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Things are tenuous,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Now is not the time to relax restrictions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope on the horizon, though:\u00a0<\/strong>Overall, officials said that with vaccinations on the rise, now is not the time to let up on restrictions and taking precautions like wearing a mask and distancing from others,\u00a0but\u00a0vaccines could be much more widely available by the spring, helping to more permanently suppress the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Centers for Disease Control and Prevention&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32140,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32139\/revisions\/32140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}