One year of COVID-19 in the United States

 

On January 21 2020 the first confirmed case of coronavirus was detected in the United States. Since then, more than 24million people have tested positive, and just before the one-year mark, the death toll reached 400,000. 

The first death was recorded on February 29th. Since then more than 50 COVID-19 patients die every passing hour. The morbid record for most deaths in a day was recorded on January the 12th of 2021 were more than 4400 patients died. That's 3 deaths a minute or a full Boeing 737 every hour. 

You can also find the share of the population that has been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 marked as blue on the top left corner of the gif below.