The United State's daily death toll from COVID-19 fell to 222 on Sunday, the lowest figure since March 23, 2020, official data from Johns Hopkins University showed. A sharp decline from the 4,000 deaths per day reported in early January of this year due to mass vaccination efforts happening across the country.
A grim new milestone as the world prepares for widespread vaccine procurement to combat the spread mutated COVID-19 variants. It took nine months to reach one million deaths internationally, and just three month to match the shocking toll set from January to September.
Another grim milestone for the U.S that represents the equivalent of 100 days of Sept. 11 tragedies, eight times the number of people in the U.S. killed by the flu between 2018-19, and four times the number of people who died by a drug overdose.
