US COVID-19 cases and deaths

Karina Zaiets, Mitchell Thorson, Shawn J. Sullivan and Janie Haseman, USA TODAYPublished 12:44 PM PDT Mar. 10, 2020 Updated 12:37 PM PST Jan. 18, 2022

The number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 grows every day throughout the U.S. and across the world. The numbers on this page are based on the latest statistics available, and are likely far lower than the actual number of cases because of limited testing. We know that at least 45 million people have contracted COVID-19 in the U.S. and more than 700,000 have died. Here’s the situation as it stands:  https://www.gannett-cdn.com/experiments/usatoday/coronavirus-us-tracker/latest-numbers.html

The number of people diagnosed with COVID-19 each day peaked in January of 2021 and then decreased over the next several months as several vaccines became publicly available. The number of new cases began rising again in July.

At least:

70,699,000

confirmed cases in the U.S.

At least:

866,000

confirmed deaths in the U.S.

Data as of: 1/23/22 at 3:21 PM

SOURCE Johns Hopkins University