From July 1-July 7, we had 82 cases in Cuyahoga County that week. This past week (July 22-28) we had 476 new case ^[1]s. This is an increase of 592% within the month. It is clear that while vaccines prevent hospitalizations, it is not preventing people from getting sick and spreading the virus. ^[2] This is because people sick with the Delta variant are releasing 1,000 times as many viral particles ^[3] as the original variant. To be clear, we are averaging “only” 68 new cases per day in the county. This is significantly less than the over 1,000/day average that we had last December. At the rate we are going, we could get there in October. So don’t panic, be safe, smart, and wear a mask when going grocery shopping.  : )