Posted on Aug 7, 2021
The U.S. Is Now Averaging 100,000 New COVID-19 Infections A Day
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The U.S. is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.
The U.S. was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.
It took the U.S. about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.
The seven-day average for daily new deaths also increased, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. It rose over the past two weeks from about 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 a day as of Friday.
The virus is spreading quickly through unvaccinated populations, especially in the South where hospitals have been overrun with patients.
Health officials are fearful that cases will continue to soar if more Americans don't embrace the vaccine.
The U.S. is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.
The U.S. was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.
It took the U.S. about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.
The seven-day average for daily new deaths also increased, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. It rose over the past two weeks from about 270 deaths per day to nearly 500 a day as of Friday.
The virus is spreading quickly through unvaccinated populations, especially in the South where hospitals have been overrun with patients.
Health officials are fearful that cases will continue to soar if more Americans don't embrace the vaccine.
The U.S. Is Now Averaging 100,000 New COVID-19 Infections A Day
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I'm curious... When do we start blaming Biden for the infection rate? The bar for that was set pretty low when the Left was quick to pounce on DJT for "not doing enough to stop the spread".
Or maybe the person sitting in the Oval Office isn't really the person to hold responsible after all. Maybe we should be looking at local level leadership and policies instead of expecting a detached, disconnected, and woefully bloated bureaucratic federal government. After all the Fed, for years, has proven itself to only be able to respond at the speed of a narcoleptic sloth overdosing on Valium. What works for NYC might not be appropriate for rural Montana and vice versa.
Or maybe the person sitting in the Oval Office isn't really the person to hold responsible after all. Maybe we should be looking at local level leadership and policies instead of expecting a detached, disconnected, and woefully bloated bureaucratic federal government. After all the Fed, for years, has proven itself to only be able to respond at the speed of a narcoleptic sloth overdosing on Valium. What works for NYC might not be appropriate for rural Montana and vice versa.
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