The United States has set another record for the number of new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, with one stat aggregator, worldometers.info, putting the number over 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic began.
Even the more conservative aggregator, the COVID Tracking Project, put the daily tally over 97,000. Worldometers set the daily count over 101,300.
The nation also experienced close to 1,000 fatalities Friday, marking the fifth consecutive day over 900 deaths. According to the COVID Tracking Project, the number of people hospitalized with coronavirus-related illness has jumped by 5,000 in one week.