California health officials will preserve a statewide mask mandate for K-12 schools through at least the end of the month, even as they’re allowing a universal indoor mask mandate to expire today. Daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations across the U.S. are continuing to decline from January’s record highs but remain near the peak of last summer’s Delta-driven surge. An average of 2,400 people are dying of coronavirus infections each day in the U.S.