Sadly this should be a surprise to exactly nobody who is paying attention. At current vaccination rates, it’s gonna get a lot worse in many US states before it gets better😢. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-covid-rising-rates-1.6101365

And please let’s not forget - fully 1 in 500 people (0.2%) in the US have died of COVID already, for a disease that’s was predicted to have an infection fatality rate of <0.5%.