A pandemic milestone and what might come next
7 min readDec 16, 2021
Der Tod eines Menschen: das ist eine Katastrophe. Hunderttausend Tote: das ist eine Statistik!
(The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!)-Kurt Tucholsky, 1925
It looks like COVID-19 has now killed about 800,000 Americans.
Here’s the latest dashboard result from Johns Hopkins University:
