650,000 Americans Have Died of COVID-19 as Fauci Warns of "Tough Choices"

More than 650,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. According to Johns Hopkins University, 650,507 Americans have died of the Coronavirus out of more than 40 million cases (40,269,303) representing a mortality rate of 1.6%.

Although the overall mortality rate has declined in recent weeks as we all know death is a lagging indicator and now the lagging appears to be over. To put this into perspective, it took 65 days for the U.S. COVID death toll to go from 600,000 to 625,000. It has taken only 19 days to go from 625,000 to 650,000 deaths. It might not be long before we start losing 100,000 a people a month again as we did late in 2020 and early in 2021. At the very minimum, it means crowded hospital wards.

Nearly 80% of all ICU beds in this country are occupied. Dr. Anthony Fauci has warned that hospitals might be soon be deciding who gets treated and who doesn't. "We are perilously close," said Fauci in an interview with CNN's Jim Acosta on Sunday. "You're going to be in a situation where you're going to have to make some very tough choices."

These tough choices will be made over the course of the next couple of weeks. During that time, we will likely reach 675,000 deaths which would equal the number of Americans who died during the Spanish Flu of 1918-1920. With all of our advances, a century has not taught us much.