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Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/01/04/0810208/us-sets-global-daily-record-of-over-1-million-covid-19-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium
US Sets Global Daily Record of Over 1 Million COVID-19 Cases
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than 1 million people in the U.S. were diagnosed with COVID-19 on Monday. Bloomberg reports: The highly mutated variant drove U.S. cases to a record, the most -- by a large margin -- that any country has ever reported. Monday's number is almost double the previous record of about 590,000 set just four days ago in the U.S., which itself was a doubling from the prior week. It is also more than twice the case count seen anywhere else at any time since the pandemic began more than two years ago. The highest number outside the U.S. came during India's delta surge, when more than 414,000 people were diagnosed on May 7, 2021.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/01/04/0810208/us-sets-global-daily-record-of-over-1-million-covid-19-cases?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium
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