CDC Sounds Alarm

(AP) – The head of the CDC is sounding the alarm that recent gains against the coronavirus may be stalling. Dr. Rochelle Walensky says the CDC is looking at data that COVID-19 cases have been increasing the past three days. However, more time is needed to see if that is a blip or the start of a trend. Walensky says mutations are spreading in the U.S., with strains first detected in Britain and now variants in New York and California. She stressed now is not the time to relax protective measures of wearing masks and avoiding gatherings. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths have fallen since the January peak. But Walensky says those gains could be in jeopardy because the background level of cases is still too high.