An article from the New York Daily News details how the U.S. is currently on the verge of surpassing the death toll from the 1918 Spanish Flu with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the "next day or two", side-by-side numbers show COVID-related U.S. deaths at 673,763, according to Johns Hopkins University data released on Sunday.
In North Carolina, the figures are below the national average with 35.3% of the population fully vaccinated. A difference of 8% over the past month. As it stands currently, the state will surpass two-third of the adult population fully vaccinated by the middle of September.