On this Memorial Day, the United States surpassed 84 million cases of COVID-19. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 84,012,408 cases of COVID-19 in this country resulting in 1,004,760 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.2%.
After taking 9 days to get from 82 to 83 million cases, it took 10 days to go from 83 to 84 million cases. However, keep in mind the holiday weekend probably slowed over the past couple of days. With people having gathered this weekend, I suspect cases will continue to accelerate. While COVID cases are nearly five times higher than they were on Memorial Day Weekend a year ago and hospitalizations continue to rise, the rise is a slow enough that hospitals are in a better position to manage the cases which are coming through their doors. But like everything else this can always change and not necessarily for the better.
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