The country recorded 100,000 deaths in roughly a month.
The U.S. has hit a grim milestone on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration: 400,000 deaths from Covid-19, according to a tracker maintained by Johns Hopkins University.
The staggering toll comes amid a struggling national vaccination effort that has resulted in just 12.3 million shots administered — well below the Trump administration’s goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020. Biden, meanwhile, has set an ambitious target of 100 million shots by the end of his first 100 days in office.
“This will be one of the most challenging operational efforts we’ve undertaken as a nation,” Biden said Thursday, announcing the details of his vaccination plan. “We’ll have to move heaven and Earth.”
So far the U.S. has seen about 23 million cases of Covid-19, with the number of new cases each day now averaging over 230,000. Daily deaths have averaged 3,312 over the last week, and about 130,000 people are hospitalized with the infection, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The number of deaths has spiked in the last month. After the country hit 200,000 deaths in late September, it took more than two months to reach 300,000 deaths. The U.S. added another 100,000 in just one month.
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The U.S. has hit a grim milestone on the eve of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration: 400,000 deaths from Covid-19 https://t.co/sifPfUSLTE pic.twitter.com/zEl4Vr3tKO
— POLITICO (@politico) January 19, 2021
The Empire State Building will be among hundreds of landmarks and buildings to light up across the country on the eve of Biden's inauguration to honor the nearly 400,000 American lives lost to COVID-19 during the last year of Trump’s presidency. https://t.co/Il9QY8MZg3
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 19, 2021
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