For 1st time, U.S. adds more than 3,000 COVID-19 deaths in single day
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Dec. 10 (UPI) The United States for the first time has seen more than 3,000 coronavirus-related deaths in a single day.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows there were about 3,120 deaths on Wednesday, topping the previous record of 2,879 last week. The data show there were 221,000 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, the second most to date.
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Over the past week, there has been an average of almost 2,300 deaths per day.
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