Coronavirus 9/11 (3,000+ deaths in one day)

[canyonwalker]

So. Less than 24 hours after I last warned about it in this blog, it's finally happened. The deaths in the US due to Coronavirus on one day surpassed the 9/11 death toll. As this NY Times article reports (9 Dec 2020), officials across the US reported at least 3,011 new Coronavirus fatalities today. The terrorist attacks of 11 Sep 2001 killed 2,977 people, excluding the terrorist perpetrators, per Wikipedia (Casualties of the September 11 attacks, retrieved 9 Dec 2020).

UPDATE: The Coronavirus death toll for 9 Dec increased to 3,157 as additional data came in.

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