Ed note: About one-third of the US population has been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus so far–at the expense of 400,000 lost lives. This podcast from the NYT Daily gives the best update I’ve found. What to expect next?? Click here to listen: http://nyti.ms/3qPb2sO
From the NYT: The number of new coronavirus cases in the United States is falling, but does that mean the country has turned a corner in the pandemic?
There is an awful reality behind the decline: As the virus has run through the U.S., it has infected a third of the population, according to most epidemiological models, and killed over 400,000 people in the country.
And the downward trajectory may not last, as the threat posed by new virus variants looms large.
Today, we discuss the latest in the quest to stamp out the coronavirus.
I am concerned that the variant may actually be impotent with this vaccine and we are too down to handle the truth.