@MarineBob However, I'm not seeing record rates of hospitalization. I posted elsewhere in this question about myself & immediate family who all tested positive just after Xmas but without any Covid red flag symptoms; more like a cold. I credit the vaccines with putting us in a position to have easy cases & mild symptoms when we finally did get infected.
They are always saying "record numbers" and have been since day one. It is a broken record at this point
Actually, that's not true. As the graph below shows, we just recently exceeded the peak set in Jan 2021 (current 7 day avg = 301,475). We truly have set a new record (and probably will continue to for the next couple weeks) so the claim is entirely truthful. And, because tests have become scarce, the reported numbers are probably an undercount.
