As I sit writing this article, our national news reported that in America today, the single-day toll for COVID-19 deaths was just over 3,000 — more than the number of Americans who were killed in the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
In the days prior to reaching this grim milestone, over 2,000 deaths a day were being reported, and it looks very likely that the 3,000-daily-death-toll number will not be a one-time occurrence.
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