Meredith WadmanThe United States is standing at a dire inflection point, with pandemic coronavirus cases surging and only 50% of the population fully vaccinated.
Driving the latest wave is the highly contagious Delta variant, which according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) caused between 80% and 87% of all U.S.
COVID-19 cases in the last 2 weeks of July — up from 8% to 14% in early June. The variant’s exceptional infectiousness has driven cases from a 7-day average of 13,500 daily cases in early June to 92,000 on 3 August.