“Ugh!” a friend posted on Facebook two weeks ago. “This stuff is no joke!!”
The friend was talking about COVID-19. He and his wife and their two children all had it. He wound up being hospitalized, and is now out.
Yes, the virus. Right here as spring has sprung. Right now as the days are getting warmer. Right here as vaccines are going into arms by the thousands.
It’s rudely still out there, the 2020 tormentor, three months into 2021.
According to the Hamilton County Health Department, 49 cases were diagnosed Monday. Twenty-four were hospitalized, up from 13 on March 5, which was the lowest number since last June. Yet, two died from the virus last week.