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On Thursday the U.S. tallied 4,085 deaths due to Coronavirus, according to experts at the Johns Hopkins University, as reported by ABC News (8 Jan 2021), by CBS News (8 Jan 2021), and other media. It's a new record for Coronavirus deaths in a single day. This 4,000+ figure hits just 30 days after the US first recorded 3,000+ deaths in one day. In the blog I wrote about that sad milestone I noted it was already more deaths than those which occurred at the hands of terrorists on 9-11 in 2001.
This one-day tally of 4,000 is not an isolated figure or an anomalous spike in the data. It caps a week in which the seven-day average was over 3,000 deaths— 3,062 as of Friday per New York Times "Coronavirus in the US" (retrieved 9 Jan 2021). That's like 9-11 happening every day for a whole week. Yet a sizable minority of people in the US are still calling it overblown, a hoax, a conspiracy, etc. It's both sad and an outrage.
This one-day tally of 4,000 is not an isolated figure or an anomalous spike in the data. It caps a week in which the seven-day average was over 3,000 deaths— 3,062 as of Friday per New York Times "Coronavirus in the US" (retrieved 9 Jan 2021). That's like 9-11 happening every day for a whole week. Yet a sizable minority of people in the US are still calling it overblown, a hoax, a conspiracy, etc. It's both sad and an outrage.
