The United States suffered its worst daily coronavirus death total of the entire pandemic by far on Wednesday. According to figures from Johns Hopkins University trackers, 2,804 Americans lost their lives—up from the previous high of 2,603 deaths set back in mid-April. Johns Hopkins initially reported over 3,100 deaths Wednesday but that was revised after an error was spotted in one state’s figures. The statistics are not going to improve any time soon—hospitalizations in the U.S. due to COVID-19 also reached their highest number to date, with 100,226 people receiving treatment. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield warned Wednesday that the coming months could be “the most difficult in the public-health history of this nation.”
