Vaccine is welcome, as the country is feeling covid19s impact like never before. In just the past week, more than 1. 51 million new coronavirus cases were reported. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. That means new infections were reporting in 1 in 216 americans. Its the most cases added in a single week since the pandemic began. In just the first 18 days of the month, december already the second highest month of new cases since the pandemic emerged. Yesterday saw yet another record high number of covid19 hospitalizations. For 17 days in a row now, more than 100,000 people have been hospitaled due to the virus. The virus continues to kill thousands of americans each day. Some of those victims include eight nuns who died within a week in a facility in milwaukee. A new study showing the death rate for hospitalized vid patients three times that the rate of hospitalized flu patients and a new model projects projects 562,000 deaths by april. The state has reported more than 300 de