The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passed the 900,000 mark on Friday.
As of Saturday afternoon, …
The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 passed the 900,000 mark on Friday. As of Saturday afternoon, data from the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center showed that there were 901,391 deaths. This milestone comes less than two months after the toll eclipsed 800,000 deaths. The real number of lives lost directly or indirectly to the coronavirus is believed to be significantly higher and experts believe some COVID-19 deaths have been misattributed to other conditions. The national coronavirus case count exceeds 76.3 million, according to the university’s tracker. In the past day, there were 371,447 new cases – a number that has fallen significantly since mid-January – and 4,154 new deaths. The daily death toll, even as the omicron wave has seemingly crested in some states and cases and hospitalizations have started to fall, has continued to increase.
