Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/12/_politics-zone-injection/covid-19-polling-coronavirus/index.html

Updated 10:37 AM ET, Fri March 12, 2021

(CNN)Inhis speechmarking the one-year anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, President Joe Biden offered these words of encouragement: “There is hope and light and better days ahead.”And he’s, largely, right! As CNN’sRyan Struyk noted Friday morning: “The United States is now averaging 1,482 deaths per day from coronavirus, the lowest daily death toll since November 30, according to data from CNN and Johns Hopkins University.” Struyk also calculates that the7-day rolling average of cases is at 53,494as of Thursday, less than half the total we were seeing in the United States just a month ago.All of the trend lines are going in the right direction. Biden’s pledge to allow everyone to sign up for a vaccination by May 1 and his promise of a return…