Another day, another record: US sets new record for daily COVID deaths with over 4,300 

Coronavirus deaths climbed to another record high on Tuesday in the United States, with a stunning 4,327 people dying in a single day, according to Johns Hopkins University.

Deaths from COVID-19 are increasing at an alarming rate in the U.S. The seven-day average for daily deaths rose from about 2,600 per day to about 3,300 in the past week, a New York Times tracker shows.

Hospitalizations are also at a record high, with more than 131,000 people in hospitals with the coronavirus, though there are signs of the increases slowing to some extent.

The situation could get worse, however, as a more contagious variant of the virus from the United Kingdom, which has already been detected in several states in the U.S., is expected to grow more prominent.

“This strain’s destiny is to become dominant here in the weeks ahead,” tweeted Eric Topol, professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research. That will mean the graph of new cases will be “going vertical,” he wrote, as has already happened in Ireland, which has been hit hard by the new variant.