president biden celebrating what we saw with our own eyes this past weekend. the progress against covid-19 allows for july 4th and other summer traditions to go almost back to normal. the administration fell short of the independence day goal of getting 77% of americans partially vaccinated an an increase in the coronavirus case count is linked where the vaccination rate is lagging. if you look at the case count, you see the line down here. when you remember in the winter you think wow, this is enormous progress. however, on june 21st, the average was 1 1,351 new infections. now 13,000 infections. that might not seem like a giant number, but cases are up more than 15%.