If you date the start of the pandemic from the first announced US death on Feb 29, 2020, the first year of the pandemic looks like this:
1402 deaths per day, 78208 cases per day.
(There were already 70 cases by 2/29/20, but they have been included in the total anyway.)
For the 265 days since Feb 28, 2021, the second year of the pandemic to date looks like this:
969 deaths per day, 71838 cases per day.
Deaths are down a whopping 31%, cases a much more modest 8%.
The Hill is showcasing the 2021 death toll to date exceeding the 2020 death toll, which is true, and is politically convenient to Joe Biden's opponents, but this completely misses how things are moving in the right direction.
Joe Biden famously promised to shut down the virus and not the country. He has not done the former and may in fact do the latter, for which he ought to be held responsible by booting his sorry ass.
But that's an entirely different matter.
Meanwhile the terrible outcomes predicted by experts from the still dominant India variant, for whatever reasons, are not panning out. At least not yet.
