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Covid cases are rising and hospitalizations have plateaued even as vaccinations increase

Covid-19 cases are rising and hospitalizations have plateaued in the U.S. even as the country set a new record for coronavirus vaccine doses administered in one day on Saturday.

The U.S. on Friday saw a seven-day average of 61,359 new Covid-19 cases per day, a 12% increase over the last week, according to a CNBC analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.

Daily coronavirus hospital admissions dropped steadily from January through February, but now hospitalizations are leveling off. The country saw a seven-day average of 4,790 Covid-19 hospital admissions on Thursday, a 2.6% compared with one week prior, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

“I remain deeply concerned about this trajectory,” CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said during a White House news briefing Friday. “We have seen cases and hospital admissions move from historic declines to stagnations and increases. We know from prior surges that if we don’t control things now, there is a real potential for the epidemic curve to soar again.”

Europe is battling a third wave of Covid infections as countries including France, Poland and Ukraine reintroduce lockdowns to curb viral spread.

The pace of vaccination is rapidly increasing with a seven-day average on Saturday of more than 2.6 million shots administered daily. More than 140 million Covid vaccine doses have been administered in the U.S. as of Saturday, according to the CDC.

President Joe Biden on Thursday set a new goal of administering 200 million coronavirus vaccine shots in his first 100 days in office.

Reference: CNBC, Worldometers