It took the United States just six days to amass an additional million coronavirus cases, surpassing 11 million confirmed cases Sunday afternoon, according to the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Sciences and Engineering COVID Dashboard.
The US has experienced an explosion in new cases in the last week, with more than 130,000 cases logged each week. On Thursday, the country registered more than 170,000 cases. Hospitalizations have also skyrocketed, stressing the nation’s health care systems.