US reports 4,000 daily coronavirus deaths for first time
The United States marks its deadliest day of the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 4000 fatalities.
The US recorded 4,085 coronavirus deaths on Thursday, according to a count from Johns Hopkins
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the record number of deaths, a total of 4,085, on Thursday brought the total toll to 365,208.
The COVID Tracking Project said a total of 4,033 people died in connection with the disease within 24 hours.
More than 266,000 new cases were reported on Thursday, bringing the total tally to more than 21.6 million cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has predicted that 405,000 to 483,000 deaths will be reported by January 30.
The new record death toll comes as more American states are reporting new cases of a new, more contagious, strain of the coronavirus. Georgia and Pennsylvania both reported cases of infection involving the variant this week.
California issued fresh lockdown orders in several parts of the state and the governor said on Thursday that the state could run out of intensive care unit capacity within weeks.
A mounting US death toll has tempered enthusiasm about a new COVID-19 vaccine with thousands of fatalities projected every day for the months ahead.
“Probably for the next 60 to 90 days, we’re going to have more deaths per day than we had on 9/11 or we had at Pearl Harbor,” Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told the Council on Foreign Relations last month.
“The reality is the vaccine approval this week is not going to really impact that, I think, to any degree for the next 60 days,” Redfield said.
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