Key Takeaways
- Both COVID-19 case rates and daily vaccine doses administered continue to decrease.
- Vaccination coverage continues to slowly but steadily increase across VA, but huge disparities and pockets of low coverage exist.
- The United States did poorly with excess death largely due to COVID-19 compared to other industrialized nations in 2020.
- The Delta variant of concern, which caused India’s huge recent surge in cases and deaths, is becoming more common in the United States.