//What you need to know about COVID-19: Death rates decline as cases, hospitalizations continue to surge

What you need to know about COVID-19: Death rates decline as cases, hospitalizations continue to surge

While the COVID-19 mortality rate may be on the decline, the nearly 3 million cases and intensive care units at capacity show the U.S. is still in the grips of a pandemic with no signs of slowing.”It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,” the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned in