A week ago, COVID-19 cases in the United States topped the 3 million mark adding 1 million new cases in less than a month.
A week later, that total has climbed by more than half a million cases with the country now adding more than 70,000 new cases a day.
In a week from now the United States will have eclipsed 4 million COVID-19 cases.
With Georgia Governor Brian Kemp suing Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms for having the temerity to mandate masks things are going to get worse before they get better. Thirty-nine states have seen COVID-19 infections rise with only two states - Delaware and Maine - seeing a decline.
The only silver lining is that while nearly 140,000 Americans have succumbed to COVID-19 the fatality rate has fallen below 4% but this trend will likely reverse with the lag time between the period of infection and the period of death.
We shall see what next week brings.
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