U.S. Shatters Single-Day Covid Case Record

“With a caseload nearly twice that of the worst single days of last winter, the United States shattered its record for new daily coronavirus cases, a milestone that may still fall short of describing the true destruction caused by the Delta and Omicron variants because testing has slowed over the holidays,” the New York Times reports.

“As a second year of living with the pandemic was drawing to a close, the new daily case total topped 488,000 on Wednesday.”