US Breaks Daily Record With 4400+ COVID Deaths

The New York Times reports:

As America slogs through this grimmest of winters, there is no relief in the daily tabulations of Covid-19 deaths: More than 4,400 were reported across the United States on Tuesday, according to a New York Times database, a number once unimaginable.

Yet even as the disease touches thousands of families, the nation is distracted by the political crisis gripping Washington in the last days of the Trump administration. Tuesday’s death count, which set another daily record, represented at least 1,597 more people than those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

The U.S. death toll, already the world’s highest by a wide margin, is now about 20,000 shy of 400,000 — only a month after the country crossed the 300,000 threshold, a figure greater than the number of Americans who died fighting in World War II.

Read the full article.

As much of America’s attention focused on the fallout from the Capitol siege, more than 4,400 Covid-19 deaths were reported on Tuesday, setting another daily record.https://t.co/sqbTb8uNuM

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 13, 2021