The August 17 seven-day average for COVID-19 deaths was 615 per day, down from 3,245 a day in early January. This comes as the highly contagious Delta variant becomes the dominant COVID-19 strain. More Americans are dying from COVID-19 than earlier this summer, which recorded a low of 246 deaths per day on July 3.
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