On Tuesday, COVID cases in the United States surpassed 85 million. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 85,329,656 cases resulting in the deaths of 1,010,805 Americans representing a mortality rate of 1.2%.
After taking 10 days to get from 83 to 84 million cases, it took 8 days to get from 84 million to 85 million cases. Two Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 have started to make their way through the country and could soon become the predominant variants. The Biden Administration has been unable to get additional funding allocated for testing so it is now allocating resources to vaccines and therapeutics. Hospitalizations continue to rise but it remains below 25,000 according to Our World in Data.
In my day to day living, more and more people have stopped wearing masks on the MBTA in the weeks since it has become voluntary and more and more people are in the office. To be candid, this is about the only place where I wear a mask consistently. I must confess I was unmasked during last night's Paul McCartney concert at Fenway Park.
There are occasional reminders of COVID, but life for better or for worse is back to normal.
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