The United States has surpassed 91 million cases of COVID-19. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 91,087,404 COVID cases resulting in the deaths of 1,029,213 Americans representing a mortality rate of 1.1%. COVID hospitalizations are just under 40,000 according to Our World in Data.
Although the surge in BA.5 cases has not resulted in a corresponding surge of hospitalizations and deaths, there is anxiety among some in the scientific community about immune escape and that two doses won't be sufficient to prevent hospitalizations and that soon we could have a variant resistant not only to our current vaccine regimen but to Paxlovid. There are calls for the development of nasal vaccines which would purportedly stop COVID at it source as well as pan-coronavirus vaccines aimed at stopping variants.
Alas most Americans are long done with COVID and have turned their attention to a recession despite the fact our unemployment rate is 3.6%. Let me put it this way the driving force of our last recession was infection not inflation.
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