New York, NY – The U.S. on Monday reached yet another grim milestone: More than 300,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, NBC News reported, citing its rolling count of fatalities from the potentially-deadly virus.
NBC News reported around 2 p.m. that the number of deaths was 300,026, while confirmed cases in the U.S. were 16,437,982.
NBC News' data is slightly different than figures from Johns Hopkins University, which put the number of U.S. deaths at 299,455.
The COVID Tracking Project, meanwhile, put the number of deaths at 291,017, as of 2 p.m.
The new milestone comes the same day as Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine begins to be distributed in the U.S. to frontline workers. The first person to receive the vaccine in New York, and one of the first in the U.S., was a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens.
