COVID-19 Update

World

New Cases:   295,714 (⬆︎ .17%)
New Deaths:      6,263 (⬆︎ .16%)

USA

New Cases:   4,422 (⬆︎ .01%) Woot woot!
New Deaths:       86 (⬆︎ .01%) ditto

Yesterday, June 20th, 2021

0 Vaccinated people

and

6,263 Un-Vaccinated people

were killed by COVID-19

177.1 million vaccinated

Including more than 149.7 million people who have been fully vaccinated in the United States.

In the last week, an average of 1.23 million doses per day were administered,

an 11% increase over the week before.

The weekend slump this week was majorly significant. USAmerica Inc showed the numbers of New Cases and New Deaths were down where they were back when they started keeping track of such things in March 2020.

That's a nice big fat fuckin' deal.

WaPo has a rundown:

The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has killed at least 601,000 people in the United States since February 2020 and enveloped nearly every part of the country.

But as more and more Americans are vaccinated, the U.S. portion of the pandemic seems to be receding.

The deadliest month was January 2021, when an average of more than 3,100 people died every day of covid-19. On six days that month, the number topped 4,000. On Feb. 22, the U.S. death toll surpassed half a million people.

But numbers dropped in January and February. By mid-May, fewer than 30,000 people were testing positive for the virus per day — roughly one-tenth of the January peak — and fewer than 600 per day were dying.

Meanwhile, the pace of vaccinations peaked at more than 4 million on some days in April, racing against time as new, more transmissible variants of the virus began to spread. By late May, more than 60 percent of adults had received at least one dose of vaccine.

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Seven-day averages show trends better than single-day values, because states’ reporting of new cases and deaths tends to drop or stop altogether on weekends.

Numbers have fluctuated as testing and reporting criteria have evolved, particularly in areas that were hit early. Three spikes in the deaths chart above reflect large, one-time adjustments in 2020: In mid-April, New York City added more than 3,700 deaths. On June 25, New Jersey added more than 1,800. And in September, The Post changed its methodology for reporting deaths in New York and added a one-day increase of more than 2,700. Other single-day spikes have occurred as states have updated their reporting procedures and are noted below those charts.

Health officials, including the country’s top infectious-disease expert, Anthony S. Fauci, have said the virus has killed more people than official death tolls indicate.

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The piece goes on to characterize things in rather stark terms - which is not to say we shouldn't be hopeful. As always, let's just proceed with caution.