With nearly 45,000 new cases of COVID-19 today, the United States has now surpassed 2.5 million mark (2,504,175) accounting for nearly a quarter of the cases over the entire world.
To put this number in perspective, we have had half a million new cases in just 12 days.
This country has also surpassed 125,000 deaths (125,484) accounting for 25% of COVID-19 deaths around the globe and making a fatality rate in the U.S. of just over 5%. Back in March, President Trump claimed the fatality rate would be "way under 1%".
Today, Vice-President Mike Pence addressing a crowd of 2,200 people in a Dallas megachurch without masks as COVID-19 surges in the Lone Star state. Among their rank was a choir of 200 people singing without masks much less social distancing. This was bad enough but Dr. Birx praising Texas' reopening plan which Governor Abbott had to put on hold a few days ago because of the spike in COVID-19 cases shows she is putting politics ahead of science. Needless to say, we can expect these numbers to accelerate as COVID-19 infection rates have fallen significantly in countries like Italy, Spain and Germany.
Meanwhile, in the United States, things will continue to get worse before they get better.
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