The CDC held a media briefing regarding COVID-19 updates that included current cases and new data from a report published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on seroprevalence in the U.S.
As of April 25, overall COVID-19 deaths have decreased by 13.2% while confirmed COVID-19 hospital admissions and COVID-19 cases have both increased 6.6% and 22.7%, respectively, compared with the previous week. Data show more than 650,000 polymerase chain reaction tests are still performed daily, but there are 70-fold fewer cases, reflecting a reliable drop in overall cases.
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