The United States has surpassed 36 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 36,050,630 COVID-19 cases resulting in 618,108 deaths. This represents a mortality rate of 1.7% which is a slight drop from 1.8%.
Nevertheless, it took only 9 days to get from 35 million to 36 million cases after taking 16 days to go from 34 million to 35 million cases. It took 58 days to get from 33 million to 34 million cases. So we have taken a big step backwards. Will we go further backwards? Will we see a million new COVID cases every four to six days like we did at the beginning of 2021?
The Delta variant is spreading very rapidly and is affecting younger adults and children in a way COVID-19 hasn't resulting in more hospitalizations among this population. It doesn't help matters that the 18-29 demographic is reluctant to get vaccinated. But there is also an urgency to vaccinate children 12 and under and to get emergency authorization approval to do so. Combine this vaccine misinformation and the refusal of a critical mass of American adults to get vaccinated and it is easy to see why we are back to more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a day. In which case, we might be at 37 million cases in a week from now - maybe less.
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