Given the promise of reopened restaurants, relaxed mask mandates, and a steady surge of vaccines flowing into arms, it would be easy to mistake this summer as the end of the Coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than half a million people in the U.S. alone, and come to define the past year and a half of our lives. But not only is the virus still raging across much of the country (to say nothing of the world at large) it's doing so thanks in no small part to the dedicated conservative holdouts who remain steadfastly opposed to any sort of COVID mitigation efforts, be they masks, social distancing, or vaccination efforts.
"Four states accounted for more than 40% of all [Coronavirus] cases in the past week," White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Jeff Zients announced at a press conference on Friday.
