U.S. COVID-19 Cases Have Doubled From 9 Million to 18 Million in Less Than 2 Months

The United States has now surpassed 18 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, this country has recorded 18,006,061 COVID-19 cases resulting in the deaths of 319,190 Americans. Our mortality rate remains at 1.8%. Once again, it took only four days to add another 1 million cases to the ledger. At this rate, we shall surpass 19 million cases on Christmas Day. We will surely surpass 20 million cases before the end of 2020.

But 18 million is a grim enough milestone. To give you an idea of how bad things have become it took 282 days for the United States to go from zero to 9 million cases. It has taken only 53 days to double that total. Less than two months with a week to spare. We've accumulated our last 9 million cases in less than a quarter of the time it took accumulate the first 9 million cases.

And it will surely get worse with people visiting family friends during Christmas and New Year's even if there is an effort to observe proceedings in caution and safety. The rate of infection is much faster than the rate of immunization. The Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are only beginning to be disseminated and they won't do much good if you get infected and, more importantly, infect others. 

There will be better days but they won't be coming by anytime soon.