VA reports more than 1,000 coronavirus deaths among patients in November

Veterans Affairs officials reported more than 1,000 new deaths related to coronavirus in November, making it the deadliest month of the pandemic so far for department medical centers.

And the numbers could be even higher in December, as active cases of the virus among patients being tracked by VA officials more than doubled from the start of November to the end of the month.

As of Tuesday morning, VA health officials had reported 5,021 deaths from complications related to coronavirus since mid-March. That’s roughly 138 deaths a week or 19 deaths a day connected to the illness since the start of the pandemic.