A lot can happen in a parking lot. In this case, when I was taking my 15-year-old son to work earlier this week, I noticed people walking toward their car with masks on. I even saw some folks still wearing their masks while driving off.
‘Here we go again,’ I thought. ‘COVID part II.’
Just when I thought I would no longer have to fish through my glovebox for a mask before heading inside to wherever the masses congregate, mounting reports this week concerning a big rise in the COVID Delta variant have deemed otherwise.
One of the more head-turning reports came Tuesday from CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky who, while testifying during a U.S. Senate hearing, said that 83% of new coronavirus cases had been traced to the Delta strain and, worse yet, COVID fatalities had risen 48% from the week prior. The highly contagious Delta variant, though not considered as dangerous as the original strain, is now the world’s leading coronavirus, according to Reuters.
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