According to multiple case trackers, the United States will surpass 200,000 fatalities from the coronavirus Tuesday, 206 days after the nation recorded its first death in the pandemic.
Reuters, the New York Times and the Johns Hopkins COVID tracker will all top the grim milestone today. Reuters reported the 200,000th death just before 11:00 a.m. ET Tuesday. The NY Time and JHU trackers are on the precipice of the number. Worldometers.info logged the 200,000th death one week ago.
The first verified fatality in the US occurred February 29, 2020 in Washington state. The US continues to have a 7-day running average of 40,000 new cases daily and more than 700 fatalities daily. The US leads the world in fatalities and cases, as well as falls in the bottom half of case fatality rate at about 3%.