As of January 20, 2021, an average of around 1,133 people per day have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. since the first case was confirmed in the country on January 20th the year before. On an average day, nearly 8,000 people die from all causes in the United States, based on data from 2019. Based on the latest information, one in seven deaths each day can be attributed to COVID-19 between January 2020 and January 2021. However, there were even days when more than every second death in the U.S. was connected to COVID-19. The daily death toll from seasonal flu, using preliminary maximum estimates from the 2019-2020 influenza season, stood at an average of around 332 people.
NBC News is tracking deaths from Covid-19 in the United States. These charts will be updated every Friday.
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COVID-19 was the
third leading cause of death across all of 2020, but in December 2020 and early 2021, the illness surged and briefly became the
number one leading cause of death in the U.S., far surpassing even cancer and heart disease deaths in those months.
COVID-19 is currently the 7th leading cause of death in the U.S. in June 2021
Average daily deaths in the United States from COVID-19 (June 2021)
342 a day? Is that right? That's a lot.
But that's a lot of Republicans not collecting social security and not warming the planet. Silver lining.