U.S. COVID Cases Pass 98 Million as Hospitalizations Plateau

Today, U.S. COVID cases surpassed 98 million. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 98,045,358 cases resulting in 1,074,688 deaths representing a mortality rate of 1.1%. 

Meanwhile hospitalizations appear to have plateaued in the low 20,000s. According to Our World in Data, hospitalizations fell to 20,862 on October 15th. Although they went above 22,000 at the beginning of November they have decreased modestly and were at 21, 469 as of November 12th. 

For its part, the Biden Administration is maintaining its public health emergency on COVID through the end of January 2023. With Thanksgiving next week and Christmas coming, I suspect the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths will invariably spike.