US hits 700,000 COVID deaths

More than 700,000 radical successful the U.S. person died from COVID-19, Johns Hopkins University reported Friday night.

It took 3 ½ months for the U.S. to spell from 600,000 to 700,000 deaths, The Associated Press reported.

The surge successful COVID-19 implicit the summertime is blamed connected the highly transmissible delta variant.

However, the U.S. is starting to spot a driblet successful cases, hospitalizations and deaths. The Centers for Disease Control reported a 13% driblet successful cases successful the seven-day mean from the anterior week.

The U.S. is presently reporting astir 106,000 cases a time and much than 1,400 deaths.

Vaccination rates are besides climbing. The CDC says 55.6% of Americans are afloat vaccinated and 64.6% person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the vaccine.