Three days after current Oval Office denizen Donald Trump said that coverage of the coronavirus pandemic wouldn’t get any media attention, the United States set another record for COVID cases, logging 125,552 confirmed cases Friday, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
As reported earlier, another data aggregator, worldometers.info, showed that the United States had surpassed 10 million cases since the pandemic began. Worldometers registered more than 132,500 confirmed cases in the country Friday.
COVID Tracking Project logged 1,186 fatalities Friday, while worldometers reported 1,248. It marks the fifth consecutive day exceeding 1,000 fatalities. Texas led the nation with more than 120 deaths.
The number of patients hospitalized with coronavirus, as tracked by the COVID Tracking Project, jumped by 1,500 to 54,824, the most since the end of July.