The United States surpassed 92 million COVID cases today. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 92,090,140 cases resulting in the deaths of 1,033,510 Americans representing a mortality rate of 1.1%.
Hospitalizations have begun to plateau. According to Our World in Data, after falling below 10,000 back on April 10th hospitalizations slowly but steadily rose peaking at just over 40,000 on July 28th but have now begun to decline modestly.
Deaths have also plateaued although it is being aptly described as "a horrible plateau" as more than 12,500 Americans died of COVID in July. This is the far cry from the more than 75,000 and 80,000 COVID deaths in December 2020 and January 2021, respectively. Nevertheless, 12,500 COVID deaths a month is not insignificant. While we are better able to manage COVID than we did 18 months ago so long as COVID exists some people are going to be hospitalized and some won't make it.
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