US now has more than four times as many cases of COVID and twice as many in hospital as this time last year with deaths up 80%
Labor Day weekend begins in the US with the Delta variant driving infections higher than a year ago. The rolling average of daily new cases is up more than 300% from a year ago, and hospitalizations are double.
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