July 4, 2021:
A triumphant President Joe Biden all but announced an end to the pandemic in the U.S. on Sunday, celebrating what he called a “heroic” vaccination campaign on the country’s Independence Day holiday.Speaking at a party on the White House’s South Lawn with more than 1,000 people in attendance, Biden declared that the U.S. had achieved “independence” from the coronavirus, though he cautioned against complacency with more transmissible variants circulating in the country.
“Today, all across this nation, we can say with confidence: America is coming back together,” Biden said to a cheer from the invited guests. “Today, while the virus hasn’t been vanquished, we know this: It no longer controls our lives, it no longer paralyzes our nation and it’s within our power to make sure it never does so again.”
Source: Biden Declares Success in Beating Pandemic in July 4 Speech – Bloomberg
White House transcript of his speech.
In CDC chart, below, red arrow marks July 4, 2021.
Deaths before July 7, 2021: 604,218
Deaths since July 7, 2021 through December 30, 2022: 478, 227
All data from the CDC. If trends continue, the number of deaths since July 4, 2021 will exceed those occurring before, in the fall of 2023.
The expert forecasts made prior to the July 4, 2021 speech were – obviously – wrong – like all expert forecasts.
