US Tops 4,000 Daily Deaths From Coronavirus

Christine Scott, an ICU nurse (L), with her sisters Althea Scott-Bonaparte and Claudia Scott-Mighty, who are patient care directors, arrived to get their second shot of the Pfizer vaccine at NewYork-Presbyterian Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville, N.Y., on Jan. 8, 2021. (Kevin Hagen/AP Photo).

The United States has topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier.

The tally from Johns Hopkins University shows the United States had 4,085 deaths Thursday, and had nearly 275,000 new coronavirus cases as well.