On the last day of 2021, COVID deaths in the United States have surpassed 825,000. According to Johns Hopkins University, 825,477 people have died of COVID-19 out of 54,588,489 cases representing a mortality rate of 1.5%.
When 2021 began, we were nearing 350,000 deaths out of just over 20 million cases. With the year drawing to a close nearly another half million Americans have died of COVID-19. Of course, early in 2021 during the dying days of the Trump Administration and the beginning of the Biden Administration we were losing 100,000 people a month. The death rate gradually slowed down, but is picking up again. Whereas it took 20 days to get from 775,000 to 800,000 deaths, it took only 17 days to get from 800,000 to 825,000 deaths. We may very well get to 1,000,000 COVID deaths sooner than May. 2022 will be 365 days just like 2021, but it will be another long year especially in the beginning.
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