The U.S. surpassed 400,000 Covid-19 deaths Tuesday and remains the country with the most COVID-19 deaths and COVID-19 cases than any other country in the world, according to data from the Center of System Science and Engineering from John Hopkins University.
The data showed that the U.S. reported 401,128 of the reported 2,051,049 COVID-19 deaths reported globally and 24,210,344 confirmed COVID-19 cases of the 95,963,947 COVID-19 cases reported globally.
- 84 days after the first recorded death, the US surpassed 100,000 deaths on May 23, 2020.
- 121 days later, the US surpassed 200,000 deaths on September 21, 2020.
- 84 days later, the US surpassed 300,000 deaths on December 14, 2020.
- 36 days later, on January 19, 2021, the US topped 400,000 deaths.
The death toll leaped from 300,000 to almost 400,000 in less than five weeks, according to a report from The Washington Post. It took just over a month for the U.S. coronavirus death toll to climb from 300,000 to nearly 400,000.
President Donald Trump and health officials warned in March that following a COVID-19 surge of new patients last year that the nation was looking at 100,000-plus deaths by the time the pandemic ends.
The pandemic continues over 10 months later, but now there are vaccines being distributed.
“If we [vaccinate] efficiently in April, May, June, July, August, we should have that degree of protection that could get us back to some form of normality… But we’ve also got to do it on a global scale,” he said at a Harvard Business Review virtual event. “If we do it right, by the time you get to summer, you could have people in the stands at baseball games. Maybe not sitting right next to each other, but some degree of fan participation in an outdoor sport like baseball by the time we get to summer.”
AXIOS reported that Fauci is currently the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and he’ll be Biden’s chief medical adviser working on the coronavirus pandemic.
Fauci has also cited President-elect Biden’s goal to vaccine 100 million people in 100 days as a good start. More doses from Moderna and Pfizer are expected to increase by February through April, Fauci said, along with the optimism of the Johnson & Johnson trials.
“I think we’ll be able to do that,” he said.
CNN reported that those who’ve died will be in focus Tuesday evening, when President-elect Joe Biden, one day ahead of his inauguration in the nation’s capital, is set to attend a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool at 5:30 p.m. ET to honor Covid-19 victims.