The rampant spread of COVID-19 (the omicron variant, in particular) continues its crushing wave of infections across the U.S.
Chantal Da Silva and Joe Murphy of NBC News reported on Jan. 10 that more new cases of COVID-19 infections were reported in the country than at any other time since the pandemic began in 2020.
“At least 1,343,167 new COVID infections were identified Monday, according to the [NBC News] tally, beating the previous record of 1,044,970 cases, set on Jan. 3, by nearly 300,000,” Da Silva and Murphy reported.
