The U.S. Has Now Recorded 60 Million COVID Cases

Today, the United States surpassed 60 million COVID cases. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the U.S. has recorded 60,072,321 cases resulting in 837,594 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.4%. The U.S. has also recorded nearly 1 of 5 COVID cases in the world which currently stands at 306,880,334 cases. 

The Omicron variant has seen 10 million new COVID cases in less than four weeks. To make matters worse, hospitalizations have surpassed 130,000 and are near the peak which was set in January 2021. Although as I noted a couple of days ago there are fewer people in the ICU. Although a majority of the hospitalizations are among the unvaccinated many of these are children under the age of 18.

The question remains is how long is the surge going to last. If it took only four weeks to go from 50 to 60 million then how long will it be before we reach 70 million cases? And what will the hospitalization rate be like then? And will deaths begin to spike again? Our long winter has only begun.