The US is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in yet another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant has spread through the country.
The US, as per a report by AP, was averaging about 11,000 cases a day in late June. Now the number is 107,143.
It took the US about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January.
Cases bottomed out in June but took about six weeks to go back above 100,000, despite a vaccine that has been given to more than 70% of the adult population.
