Over the past week, one new COVID-19 death was recorded every 106 seconds in the US, as the country approaches 200,000 total deaths from the virus, according to an NBCNews analysis.
Wyoming , Alaska , Arkansas , North Dakota Kentucky and Georgia percent) have also reported big percentage spikes in COVID-19 deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, the Virgin Islands have reported a total 17 deaths and Puerto Rico has recorded 477 deaths. Most of the deaths since then have been reported in Southern and Sun Belt states such as Florida, Arizona and Texas that began reopening in May at the urging of President Donald Trump just as the pandemic was starting to crest in those regions.
The U.S. now accounts for almost a quarter of the more than 27.3 million cases and about a fifth of the nearly 893,000-plus deaths worldwide, according to the
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