The United States officially surpassed 81 million COVID-19 cases today. According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been 81,037,785 COVID cases resulting in 991,558 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.2%.
After taking 29 days to go from 79 to 80 million cases, it took 27 days to get from 80 to 81 million cases. Of course, with at home tests, we're probably adding 1 million new cases much more quickly than once a month.
Nevertheless, when we were adding 1 million cases a day at the height of Omicron in January it was accompanied by COVID hospitalizations exceeding 150,000. That number has now dwindled to just over 10,000 hospitalizations which is even lower than what it was in July 2021 right before the Delta variant hit. That doesn't mean the hospitals aren't facing challenges but COVID is certainly more manageable than it was three months ago never mind two years ago.
Still, we are nearing 1 million COVID deaths and we will probably hit that ominous figure sometime in May. No war or natural disaster has killed so many Americans in so short a time. It is a black mark on our country and lot of it is of our own making.
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