December 11, 2020
The US COVID-19 death toll has now surpassed the number of Americans killed during WWII - as the country recorded its deadliest week of the pandemic so far ...
Deaths rose by nearly 16,000 nationwide last week - an increase of 44 percent compared to the previous seven days, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
A total of 2,768 Americans died yesterday after surging past 3,000 for the first time a day earlier. The average number of deaths reported this week have now surpassed the peak reached at the height of the pandemic last April.
The US death toll from COVID-19 now stands at 292,141...
In addition to record deaths in the last week, t
he number of hospitalizations and cases have also hit new highs.
More than 1.4 million cases were reported in the last week, which is up from the 1.37 million reported in the previous seven days.
The number of infections yesterday reached 224,452.
Hospitalizations are at an all-time high with 107,248 patients currently being treated for the virus. The number of patients being treated is up 8.8 percent compared to the previous week.