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  • the United States reported its co VID 19 death toll crossed the staggering half million mark on Monday, nearly a year after the novel Coronavirus Pandemic upended the nation.

  • It's going to disappear one day.

  • It's like a miracle it will disappear, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, on Sunday told CNN quote.

  • It's nothing like we've ever been through in the last 102 years since the 1918 influenza pandemic.

  • It really is a terrible situation that we've been through and that we're still going through.

  • Case rates in the US have declined markedly to their lowest levels since the Thanksgiving holidays.

  • But Fauci told CNN quote.

  • We want to get that baseline really, really, really low before we start thinking that we're out of the woods.

  • He said Americans may still need to wear masks in 2022.

  • At the same time, prevention measures are being relaxed again.

  • New variants of the virus are emerging and just 15% of the U.

  • S has so far received a vaccination.

  • The Centers for Disease Control on Sunday reported a little over 60 million Americans have gotten at least one shot of a Covad 19 vaccine, about 19 million have received a second dose.

  • President Joe Biden said last week he was confident the U.

  • S would have hundreds of millions of doses by summer.

  • We'll have ordered much of what you have been distributed over 600 million doses by the end of July.

  • July 29th is expected date, I believe, will be approaching normalcy by the end of this year.

  • God willing, this Christmas will be different than last.

  • More than 28 million covert cases have rocked the United States.

  • The virus took a full year off the nation's average life expectancy, the biggest decline since World War Two.

the United States reported its co VID 19 death toll crossed the staggering half million mark on Monday, nearly a year after the novel Coronavirus Pandemic upended the nation.

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