UPDATED Coronavirus: US Records 3,000+ Daily Deaths for 1st Time
Posted by Scott Lucas | Dec 11, 2020 |
Registered nurse Shelly Girardin checks data as Dr. Shane Wilson examines a patient with Coronavirus (Jeff Roberson/AP)
UPDATE, DEC 11:
Confirmed cases are 15,616,381, an increase of 224,681. Hospitalizations are a record 107,258, with 21,023 patients in intensive care.
The Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee meeting has approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for distribution. The FDA is expected to follow the rrecommendations with emergency authorization, raising the prospect of inoculation of healthcare workers and nursing home residents within days.
ORIGINAL ENTRY, DEC 10: The US records more than 3,000 daily Coronavirus deaths for the first time.
Eric Nagourney and Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times Published: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST Updated: 10 Dec 2020 09:48 PM BdST An El Paso County Sheriff s Officer tries to block photographs from being taken as bodies are moved to refrigerated trailers, deployed during a surge of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) deaths, outside the County of El Paso Medical Examiners Office in El Paso, Texas, US November 16, 2020. Reuters
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Late Wednesday in the United States, the daily death toll exceeded the record set just one week earlier: 2,885.
By midnight it had climbed to 3,053, and total deaths since the coronavirus spread into the country at the beginning of the year and began laying siege had reached 289,529.
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