U.S. COVID Deaths Top 925K Out of 78 Million Plus Cases

The United States has now topped 925,000 deaths due to COVID-19 as well as passed 78 million cases. According to Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, there have been 78,036,352 cases resulting in 925,438 deaths. 

We have added 1 million new COVID cases over the past week. But it wasn't so long that we would add more than 1 million new cases a day. Yet with states and municipalities dropping mask mandates and vaccine requirements I worry that we will as a country accept 1 million new COVID cases a week even if it wreaks havoc on our health care system thereby prolonging the pandemic. I can only hope that cases continue to slow. But if jurisdictions loosen the rules cases are bound to skyrocket again.

After taking 9 days to go from 875,000 to 900,000 deaths, it took 11 days to go from 900,000 to 925,000 deaths. At this current rate, the United States will surpass 1 million deaths from COVID-19 on March 20th - the first day of spring.