The publicly announced backlog in passport applications was showing yesterday as being a bit over 1.3M. In other words, the rate of the 7-day bite into the running backlog was a bit over 100k even as passport issuance volume for the period was closer to double the rate of the prior few 7 day period. If the coronavirus surge in the US doesn’t put a halt to this kind of eating into passport issuance volumes, then a lot of the March application people should be good to go with passports within weeks at most.