Covid cases are continuing to fall in the U.S. as the country starts to move past the surge, recording a 43 percent drop in daily infections over the past week down from 469,770 daily cases a week ago to 267,765 as of Tuesday morning.The falling cases continue a near-month-long trend of Covid cases plummeting after peaking in mid-January. When Omicron, the highly infectious virus strain that was first detected in , first made its way to the U.S. it caused cases to explode nationwide. Daily cases reached a peak of around 800,000 per day on January 15.Like it did in other countries, though, the variant quickly ran out of steam. Cases have fallen week-over-week for the past three weeks. The daily case total is now nearing the highs of around 250,000 per day set in last year's surge and is expected to fall even further.
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