The United States closed out 2020 with the deadliest and most infectious month since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, while also surpassing 20 million confirmed Covid-19 cases.
More than 77,000 people lost their lives in December to Covid-19, while 6.4 million contracted the virus amid the emergence of a new virus variant and delayed efforts to get people vaccinated. The second-deadliest month was April 2020, with more than 58,000 deaths.
At least 227,651 new cases were reported on Thursday and 3,451 people died, marking the second-highest daily death toll, according to on NBC News' tally.
The virus has killed more than 356,000 people in the U.S.
At least four cases of a new Covid-19 variant first detected in the United Kingdom have been reported in Colorado, California and Florida. However, Dr. Mercedes Carnethon, vice chair of preventive medicine at Northwestern University, said experts are "fairly confident this variant is now everywhere."
This variant also "appears to affect more adults under age 20," Carnethon told MSNBC. "And I think the reason why that's particularly critical is that this younger adult population is circulating more. They are performing some of the essential roles such as delivery work, factory work and they're just generally out there in the population, and that population isn't in line to be vaccinated soon."
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Op Ed: The actual December covid deaths are still being counted and covid deaths in general are under counted. The real number is probably over 100,000. The January and February surge will surpass 250,000 deaths and most of the dead will be MAGAts.
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