The United States has now topped 625,000 COVID-19 deaths. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 625,153 deaths due to COVID-19 out of 37,292,779 cases representing a mortality rate of 1.7%.
Earlier in the year, we were losing 100,000 people every five weeks. It took 65 days to go from 600,000 to 625,000 deaths. This after it took 46 days to go from 575,000 to 600,000 deaths.
But when it comes to COVID-19, death is always a lagging indicator. It took only a week to go from 36 to 37 million cases. We hit 37 million cases two days ago. Now we are nearing 37,300,000 cases. By late September-early October I anticipate we will see death rates will spike yet again. Which means we will probably get to 650,000 deaths in less than two months, perhaps even less than six weeks. Unfortunately, a large segment of our population will continue to act like nothing ever happened until it happens to them.
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