Another 6 Days, Another 1 Million as U.S. Tops 13 Million COVID-19 Cases

There have been some ugly patterns in November.

On November 9th, the U.S. recorded its 10 millionth COVID-19 case. 

Six days later, on November 15th, the U.S. recorded its 11 millionth COVID-19 case. 

And six days after that, on November 21st, the U.S. recorded its 12 millionth COVID-19 case.

Well, another six days have passed since then and, well, you guessed it. We are now at 13 million COVID-19 cases.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the United States has now recorded 13,047,202 COVID-19 cases and along with it 264,624 deaths. This is a mortality rate of 2%. Over 90,000 Americans are currently hospitalized as a result of COVID-19.

There are three more days left in November and, in another day or so, 4 million Americans will have been diagnosed with COVID-19 this month alone. To put that number into perspective it took until July 23rd until America recorded its 4 millionth COVID-19 case. Now we've done in the space of a month.

If this wasn't scary enough all this Thanksgiving travel (not to mention the Christmas holidays) is only going to accelerate the pace of transmission no matter how soon a vaccine is put in place. 

There are things for which we can be thankful. This is surely not one of them.