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Rate of New Cases Continues Leveling Trend

Good Morning,

For the last four weeks, we have seen a leveling of new cases increase between 415,000 to 435,000. This rate is far less than Augusts’ numbers which exceeded 1 million per week.

Through the first week of November, 194 million Americans have received their complete regimen of vaccinations, or 58%, with another 33 million in the queue to finish their requirement. Over the past several weeks, we are averaging about 1.2 million added to the fully vaccinated category; however, 2.6 million more have been added to the class this past week. Data analysis will be further complicated because boosters are needed and how that will be accounted for is undetermined.

Slowly we are approaching the Herd Immunity Factor (HIF), the combination of those that have acquired natural immunity or through vaccination. Currently, we are hovering in the mid 70 percentile of HIF. The 193 million vaccinated plus those that had the virus and “officially recorded” 19 million, plus those counted as a new case but yet to be classified as closed, 43 million is the HIF. That equates to 77% of our population. We believe the HIF is at least 80%. That means we will probably not see another significant drop until HIF is reached.