IN A SINGLE DAY, UNITED STATES LOGS ALMOST ONE MILLION COVID CASES

  • 04/01/2022

In a single day, more than 1 million people in the United States were diagnosed with COVID-19, as a flood of Omicron engulfs every part of daily American life.

The highly modified version pushed the number of cases to a record 1,083,948 - by far the largest that any country has ever documented. Monday's figure, which will be revealed on Tuesday AEDT, is nearly double the previous record of around 590,000 set just four days earlier, which was itself a doubling from the previous week.

It is also more than double the number of cases seen everywhere else since the pandemic began more than two years ago. The largest number outside the United States was on May 7, 2021, during India's Delta spike, when more than 414,000 persons were diagnosed.

The skyrocketing figures come as many Americans rely on home testing, the findings of which are not submitted to official government agencies. That means the record is almost certainly overstated. 

While the rising number of cases hasn't yet resulted in severe infections or a spike in mortality, the impact has been felt across the country as the newly infected isolate at home. As a result, planes are cancelled, schools and offices are shuttered, hospitals are overcrowded, and supply lines are tangled.

The data from Johns Hopkins University is complete as of midnight eastern time in Baltimore, US, and reporting delays over the holidays may have contributed to the growing rates.

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