Early Monday afternoon, the United States surpassed 10 million confirmed coronavirus cases, roughly 20% of the confirmed cases worldwide, according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracker.
The JHU tracker is a more conservative aggregator than others. The Worldometers.info tracker reported the US crossed that threshold three days ago.
It took 14 days for the United States to rack up one million cases. It surpassed nine million cases just two weeks ago.
On February 26th, when the number of known cases in the US numbered around 35, now-outgoing-president Donald Trump declared that “within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.” That was evidently untrue.