The United States officially surpassed 99 million COVID-19 cases today. According to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there have been 99,023,619 cases resulting in the deaths of 1,081,638 Americans representing a mortality rate of 1.1%.
Hospitalizations are beginning to rise. After being in the low 20,000's since mid-September, hospitalizations are nearing 30,000. As of December 3rd, COVID hospitalizations totaled 29,291 according to Our World in Data. Complicating matters is hospitalizations from RSV and the flu - the latter of which is at its highest in a decade.
We are starting to see hospitalizations as a result of interactions during Thanksgiving. We can expect more of it during the Christmas and New Year's holidays and with winter coming we can expect a further rise in hospitalizations for all three of these conditions.
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