Gov Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that his state - which has been among those with the strictest mandates during the pandemic - will soon transition into treating as an endemic, moving on from the pandemic as the state marks two years since the first cases of the virus were detected in the U.S.The decision comes as daily infections crater in the Golden state, and much of the rest of the nation. Cases in California have dropped 74 percent over the past two weeks and only 37 of every 100,000 residents are testing positive for the virus daily. It is one of 50 U.S. states recording a drop in daily infections over that period. Nationwide, cases are down 43 percent over the past week, down to 118,360 per day from 210,557 a week ago. The U.S. is now a month removed from the peak of the wave in mid-January, where cases reached heights of 800,000 per day. In the time since, daily infections have cratered and fallen more than 80 percent.
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