Sources: CNN
The World Health Organization classifies the EG.5 variant of COVID-19 as a variant of interest. The variant has been spreading rapidly in the United States. 2023-08-9
COVID-19 passes a threshold of 1 million confirmed deaths in the United States, according to a Reuters tally. Some news outlets declared that the 1 million mark was reached a week earlier. 2022-05-11
The United States reports its first case of the Omicron variant in a person who travelled from South Africa to California. 2021-12-1
The United States surpasses 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been administered. 2021-03-12
The number of confirmed deaths in the United States reaches 250,000. 2020-11-18
Nationwide, more than 180,000 cases reported in the United States, a new world record. 2020-11-13
AstraZeneca is expected to resume vaccine trials in the United States as early as this week. 2020-10-20
President Rodrigo Duterte rejects the prospect of reopening the country during a televised cabinet meeting. He goes on to claim that following the examples of the United States', Brazil's and others' "bold actions" would result in "pandemonium", and the potential resultant spike in COVID-19 cases would land the nation in "deep shit". 2020-07-9
The United States surpasses two million cases of COVID-19, the first country in the world to do so. 2020-06-11
"The Washington Post" reports that U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned President Trump about the threats posed by COVID-19 in January and February, but administration officials say they "just couldn't get him to do anything about it." 2020-03-20