Looks like we are finally getting the upper hand on this nasty bug that has killed more than half a million of our fellow Americans. Case rates are plummeting and the immunized proportion of the population is climbing rapidly. Soberingly, if the observed death rate of 2.5% continues, we will still lose another quarter of a million lives before it is all over. The final death toll will probably exceed the number of Americans who died in World War I, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined.

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