Seventy-nine years ago today, the deaths of 2,335 members of the US military was called “a day that will live in infamy” by then-President Franklin Roosevelt because of the crippling attack on Pearl Harbor.
In 2020, the seven day running average of coronavirus fatalities in the US sits at 2,296, an all-time high and just shy of the number of soldiers and sailors killed in 1941. But in this age of the coronavirus, it’s just another day in American as we roll through this pandemic.
On Monday, the US had at least 181,000 new confirmed cases, with at least 1,350 fatalities. The country also had more than 102,000 patients hospitalized with coronavirus, a new high.