‘Turning the Corner’: 

U.S. Covid Outlook 

Reaches Most Hopeful 

Point Yet

“We’re clearly turning the corner,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

Across the country, the outlook for the pandemic has indeed improved, putting the United States in its best position against the virus yet. The nation is recording about 49,000 new cases a day, the lowest number since early October, and hospitalizations have plateaued at around 40,000, a similar level as the early fall. Nationwide, deaths are hovering around 700 a day, down from a peak of more than 3,000 in January.

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More than half of American adults — 148 million people — have received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine, perhaps the biggest reason experts are optimistic that the improved outlook may last. Cases, hospitalizations and deaths have also fallen at a time when the weather is getting warmer, which, in many places, will allow people to spend more time outdoors, where the virus spreads less easily.

The undersigned provides the necessary blot on the sun today, for, just two days after President Biden acknowledged defeat with his Declaration of COVID Independence promise, we get this shiny picture. 

Look at the numbers: Is that unfiltered sunlight you see coming from 49k cases/day "the lowest...since early October"?; from "around 700 [deaths] a day" because it's less than a quarter from peak grim in January??? Are those now our standards? Of course not. COVID-19 must be CRUSHED, that is the standard, and we are 49k cases and 700 deaths per day away from crush.

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