Tracking cases: More than 449,000 people have died from coronavirus in the U.S.

U.S. coronavirus cases: Tracking deaths, confirmed cases by state The death toll from covid-19 began to rise steadily in early March, then more sharply as the disease spread to every state and most U.S. territories. Joe Fox, Brittany Mayes, Kevin Schaul, Leslie Shapiro, Bonnie Berkowitz, Youjin Shin, Chris Alcantara Washington Post

The disease caused by the novel coronavirus has killed at least 449,000 people in the United States since February 2020 and has enveloped nearly every part of the country.

The seven-day average death toll routinely topped 3,000 in January, higher than the previous peak in April, despite improvements in treatment that make survival more likely. Six times in January, covid-19 killed more than 4,000 people in one day.

But the number of hospitalizations and new cases began to fall in January, and the pace of vaccinations accelerated to more than a million shots a day just as new, more transmissible variants of the virus began to appear in parts of the country. ...

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