The United States passed two milestones on Wednesday: we recorded more than 3,000 deaths and our mortality rate rose firmly above the peak of our first wave. Those vaccines can’t come fast enough.
Here’s the coronavirus death toll through December 9. The raw data from Johns Hopkins is here.
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