The 20 millionth case comes less than two months after the country tallied its 10 millionth.
Documented Covid-19 cases in the United States surged past 20 million on Friday amid record hospitalizations and staggering numbers of daily deaths, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University. The 20 millionth case comes less than two months after the country tallied its 10 millionth. The U.S. leads the globe in Covid-19 deaths, with the disease claiming the lives of nearly 336,000 people. Health officials have repeatedly asked Americans to cut down on holiday travel to help limit the spread of Covid-19, but many are still traveling. Roughly 7.2 million people passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints in the past week compared to 16.7 million during the same period in 2019, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration. Daily cases averaged more than 178,000 and daily deaths 2,280 over the past week despite holiday data disruptions, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
