For the first time in almost two months, current hospitalizations for Covid-19 in the United States have dropped to less than 100,000, according to data from The Covid Tracking Project.
On Saturday, the US reported 97,561 hospitalizations for Covid-19, the data show.
Before that, the last time the US had fewer than 100,000 current hospitalizations was on December 1, 2020 – 60 days ago.
On December 1, the United States had an average of 7 days of about 163,000 new cases and 1,540 reported deaths per day, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Right now, the US has roughly the same new average number of cases, but more than double the daily average of deaths, with more than 3,000 per day.
Hospitalizations have been dropping consistently since the beginning of the year, according to the CTP. Last week was the first week since November 5 that no state has reached a new record for current hospitalizations, according to the CTP.