U.S. COVID-19 Cases Hit The 30 Million Mark

Today, the United States recorded its 30 millionth COVID-19 case. According to Johns Hopkins University, as of this writing, there have been 30,004.079 COVID-19 cases in this country resulting in 545,103 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.8%.

It took 106 days for the number of COVID-19 cases to double from 15 million to 30 million. That might not seem like a long time but it took 79 days for COVID cases to double from 14 million to 28 million. Let us also consider that back in December we were adding 1 million new cases every five days. By contrast, it took 16 days to get from 29 million to 30 million cases. The baby steps are beginning to spring into leaps.

The vaccines are helping and tomorrow I (along all everyone in Georgia 16 years of age and older) will be eligible for a vaccine. Of course, when I get the vaccine is a whole other question. But it will be a question for another day.