 It killed 4,000 Americans in just the last two days. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 1 million new COVID-19 cases in the United States just last week. As of Tuesday, we'd experienced our 20th straight day of over 100,000 cases a day. And what's worse, we had our 14th day in a row of record hospitalizations, which means that ICU beds are running out fast and hospital staff are exhausted.