The United States has reached the milestone of 11 million confirmed cases of coronavirus - only eight days after the country reached the 10 million mark. It took just over two weeks for the nation to go from eight million cases to nine million on October 30; from nine to 10 million took only 10 days, according to the New York Times. 'We're going to start those consultations this week,' said Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff. According to Reuters, the US could report between 8 million and 13 million more cases of COVID-19 between now and the inauguration. That means the U.S. is adding about 1 million new cases a week, and deaths averaged 820 a day as of Saturday, a 33 per cent increase in just two weeks.

Source: The Nation November 16, 2020 05:48 UTC