The United States has officially surpassed 94 million COVID-19 cases. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 94,016,897 cases of COVID resulting in 1,043,030 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.1%.
While we continue to add 1 million new COVID cases every 7-10 days, hospitalizations have been slowly declining. After surging from just under 10,000 hospitalizations in early in April to just over 40,000 in late July, hospitalizations have been declining over the past four weeks. As of August 23rd, we are at 34,248 hospitalizations according to Our World in Data. These declines are happening everywhere from Oregon, Iowa, Utah, Illinois and Louisiana.
Whether these positive trends will continue after Labor Day Weekend remains to be seen but for the moment things are going in the right direction where it concerns COVID.
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