January Saw Most COVID-19 Deaths, Hospitalizations Amid Pandemic

January saw more people who have died after contracting COVID-19 in the United States than any other month since the disease started spreading.

Clinicians care for a COVID-19 patient at Providence St. Mary Medical Center in Apple Valley, Calif., on Jan. 27, 2021. Mario Tama/Getty Images

The year 2021 appears to have started on a grim note as more people died in January after contracting COVID-19 in the United States than in any other month since the start of the pandemic, according to the COVID Tracking Project.

“January saw the most deaths of any month so far at 95,211, nearly 20k more than in December,” read a post on the Twitter account for the project, which says it is “housed at” The Atlantic.