Today, the U.S. officially passed 90 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 90,046,834 cases resulting in 1,025,741 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.1%. Hospitalizations continue to rise slowly but steadily nearing 36,500 as of 48 hours ago.
Yesterday, the CDC gave approval to the Novavax vaccine. Unlike Pfizer and Moderna, Novavax is two dose non-mRNA vaccine. But the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine is also non-mRNA. I doubt this will move the needle for lack of a better phrase. Those who refuse to get vaccinated won't care what the vaccine is made of. Although two thirds of the country is fully vaccinated (67.59%), when your vaccination rate is marginally better than Rwanda (67.43%) and marginally worse than Sri Lanka (67.96%) which is in the midst of political turmoil it does not inspire confidence that things will get better.
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