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20 Million
January 1, 2021: NPR reported that the United States had recorded its 20 millionth confirmed coronavirus case since the beginning of the pandemic.
That figure was according to numbers from Johns Hopkins University, which reported 20,037,736 cases and 346,687 deaths in the U.S. at the time of publication on Friday, January 1. Over 83 million coronavirus cases had been confirmed worldwide.
The U.S. had reached 10 million cases on November 9. In less than two months, the country had doubled its total number of infections.
The nation accounts for nearly a quarter of all infections in the world and a fifth of all deaths.
1,834,663 COVID Deaths Worldwide
January 1, 2021: 84,362,526 cases; 1,834,663 deaths worldwide
356,445 COVID Deaths USA
January 1, 2021: 20,617,346 cases; 356,445 deaths in the United States,
Winter 2021 COVID 19
COVID numbers accurate
January 3: US Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams said he had “no reason to doubt” the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Covid-19 death toll, contradicting President Donald Trump’s claim that the agency has “exaggerated” its numbers.
Winter 2021 COVID 19
1,860,354 COVID Deaths Worldwide
January 4, 2021: 86,095,659 cases; 1,860,354 deaths worldwide
362,123 COVID Deaths USA
January 4, 2021: 21,353,051 cases; 362,123 deaths in the United States,
Slow Rollout
January 5: inoculation efforts in many countries rolled out slower than promised, even as the count of new infections soared and record numbers flood hospitals, placing a double burden on health care providers who had also been tasked with leading the vaccination push.
And a more contagious variant spreading widely in England and detected in dozens of other countries threatened to give the virus an even greater advantage. [NYT article]
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On January 7, 2021, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the United States’ top infectious disease specialist, said in a radio interview, “We believe things will get worse as we get into January.”
On January 8, 2021, the United States broke its single-day record for new coronavirus cases for the second consecutive day with more than 300,000 cases.
It was the first time the country had crossed the 300,000-case mark, according to a New York Times database. Hospitalizations were also at a near-record high — 131,889, according to the Covid Tracking Project — and officials across the nation reported more than 3,890 new deaths the same day, the third-highest daily tally of the pandemic. [NYT article]
Winter 2021 COVID 19
1,921,119 COVID Deaths Worldwide
January 8, 2021: 89,343,185 cases; 1,921,119 deaths worldwide
362,123 COVID Deaths USA
January 8, 2021: 22,461,696 cases; 378,204 deaths in the United States,
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January 12, 2021: 4,218 deaths were reported across the United States, according to a New York Times database, a number once unimaginable.
The death count, which set another daily record, represented at least 1,597 more people than those killed in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The U.S. death toll, already the world’s highest by a wide margin, was at that point about 20,000 shy of 400,000 — only a month after the country crossed the 300,000 threshold, a figure greater than the number of Americans who died fighting in World War II.
Winter 2021 COVID 19
1,968,914 COVID Deaths Worldwide
January 12, 2021: 91,995,859 cases; 1,968,914 deaths worldwide
389,621 COVID Deaths USA
January 12, 2021: 23,369,732 cases; 389,621 deaths in the United States,
Winter 2021 COVID 19
Biden President
January 20, 2012: President Biden signed an executive order appointing Jeffrey D. Zients as the official Covid-19 response coordinator who will report to the president, in an effort to “aggressively” gear up the nation’s response to the pandemic.
The order also restored the directorate for global health security and biodefense at the National Security Council, a group President Trump had disbanded.
Though it is not a national mask mandate, which would most likely fall to a legal challenge, Biden required social distancing and the wearing of masks on all federal property and by all federal employees.
He also started a “100 days masking challenge” urging all Americans to wear masks and state and local officials to implement public measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Biden also reinstated ties with the World Health Organization after the Trump administration had chosen to withdraw the nation’s membership and funding last year. Dr. Anthony S. Fauci would head the U.S. delegation to the organization’s executive board and jumped into the role with a meeting this week. [NYT article}
Winter 2021 COVID 19
2,081,857 COVID Deaths Worldwide
January 20, 2021: 97,287,117 cases; 2,081,857 deaths worldwide
415,905 COVID Deaths USA
January 20, 2021: 24,999,070 cases; 415,905 deaths in the United States,
Winter 2021 COVID 19
January 21, Biden’s first full day
President Biden, pledging a “full-scale wartime effort” to combat the coronavirus pandemic, signed a string of executive orders and presidential directives aimed at combating the worst public health crisis in a century, including new requirements for masks on interstate planes, trains and buses and for international travelers to quarantine after arriving in the United States.
“History is going to measure whether we are up to the task,” Mr. Biden declared in an appearance in the State Dining Room of the White House, with Vice President Kamala Harris and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, his chief Covid-19 medical adviser, by his side.
In a 200-page document called “National Strategy for the Covid-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness,” the new administration outlines the kind of centralized federal response that Democrats have long demanded and President Donald J. Trump refused. [NYT article]
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