Tonight, the United States recorded its 475,000 death due to COVID-19. According to Johns Hopkins University, 475,040 Americans have died of COVID-19 among 27,382,857 cases representing a mortality rate of 1.7%.
It took exactly one month for the death toll to go from 375,000 to 475,000. In other words, 100,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 since January 11th. It also took exactly one month for the death toll to go from 350,000 to 450,000. At this current pace, the COVID-19 death toll will hit half a million on February 19th - one week from tomorrow. The ways things are going it could come sooner than that.
Many of us have become inured to it while others act like none of this is happening. Neither is a good thing.
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