Prognosis
US Covid Case Count to Go Dark as Public Health Emergency Ends
- Pandemic concerns easing as WHO lowers alert level for Covid
- US began tracking infections when outbreak began in 2020
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The US government’s count of new Covid-19 cases has been dropping for months. Soon, it will disappear entirely.
Thousands of Americans are still contracting the coronavirus each week. But when the public health emergency ends May 11, laboratories across the country will no longer be required to report Covid test results to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That will eventually mean no more weekly infection, transmission and community-level numbers in CDC’s Covid Data Tracker.