It took only six days for the United States to add another 1 million COVID-19 cases topping the 39 million mark. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 39,048,608 cases of COVID-19 in this country resulting in 638,671 deaths. The summer surge has resulted in a drop in the mortality rate to 1.6%. But death is a lagging indicator and I suspect it will eventually tick back up so long as people refused to get vaccinated.
And, of course, people will continue to refuse to get vaccinated if they insist on taking Ivermectin - horse de-wormer - to treat COVID even though the FDA recommends against it as has Merck, the company which manufactures it.
Unfortunately, we have judges who are ordering hospitals to administer it, FOX News claiming that it makes vaccines moot and Senator Rand Paul claiming hatred of former President Trump is impeding research into ivermectin. I seem to recall it was Trump who was telling his audience to get vaccinated and got jeered in the process. Mind you, Senator Paul has publicly bragged he won't get vaccinated and I suspect many of his constituents will follow his lead.
It's attitudes like this which help to explain why are back to a million plus COVID cases every week. We were looking so good from mid-May through June. But nope a critical mass of us seems determined to let this pandemic continue unabated and effectively destroy ourselves from within. We have let ourselves become a sick country and too many of us don't want to make ourselves better.
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