CORONAVIRUS LATEST: • U.S. surpasses 160,000 deaths. • Pandemic has killed more than 712,000 people across the globe. • Over 19.1 million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
5:20 a.m.: US weekly COVID-19 cases, deaths down
In good news, however, an internal Federal Emergency Management Agency memo obtained by ABC News shows that the U.S. is slightly coming down from its recent national surge. New cases and deaths in the last week have both decreased in week-over-week comparisons. At least 396,559 new cases were confirmed during the period of July 29 and Aug. 5, which is a 12.6% decrease from the previous seven-day period.
The national test-positivity rate is also going down. In the last seven days, the rate was 7.5%, which is down from 8.6% from the previous week.
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