More than 76,000 Americans died from Covid-19 in December, pandemic’s deadliest month

Nearly 77,000 Americans died from Covid-19 in December, by every measure the worst month of a pandemic that has killed more than 340,000 people in the US since the onset of the outbreak.

Every week of December saw more deaths from Covid-19 than any other week in the year, according to data collected by the COVID Tracking Project. The coronavirus deaths of 76,580 people in December surpassed the death toll from the year’s second most-lethal month of April by more than 20,000 lives.

On the final day of 2020, a record-high 125,379 people were reported in hospital for the coronavirus. More than 3,200 people died.