Cases are up, but deaths are down.
Yes, the virus is claiming on average a thousand lives a day, and one death is too many.. But 200,000 deaths in a country of 330 million, that works out to 0.0006%.
On average though, one person dies in this country every seven seconds.
That includes 25,000 traffic deaths, all deaths to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, suicides, and flu season will be here any minute.
But some positive news. Even though every seven seconds someone dies, every four seconds someone is born.