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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - APRIL 22: A man wearing a mask walks past "Melrose" street art by artist Levi Ponce on Melrose Avenue amid the coronavirus pandemic on April 22, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles County moved into Covid-19 orange tier restrictions on April 5 allowing increased capacity at restaurants, movie theaters and museums. (Photo by Alexi Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Vaccines are helping bring down US Covid-19 numbers. But the virus is now hitting one group of Americans harder

By Christina Maxouris America’s daily Covid-19 cases and deaths are now about one-fifth of what they were during their winter peaks — and one expert says the country’s improved numbers have a lot to do with the climbing vaccinations. The weekly average of daily Covid-19 deaths is more than 660, according to Johns Hopkins University

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