How much of a factor do the recent blizzards play into these numbers?
Have to imagine that transmissions would be down because of that, testing done would be WAY WAY down, and reported covid deaths would probably also be down.
The numbers have been dropping for weeks. My best guess is post-holidays decline plus the vaccine finally starting to take effect.
At this point you have to think most of the people that are high potential spreaders of the virus are either:
1) frontline/essential workers that have gotten vaccinated or will be shortly
2) people that are continually out and about for whatever reason and have already contracted covid, recovered, and moved on