US Covid-19 Death Toll Surged Above 186,000: 1,074 deaths in the last 24 hours

At least 1,074 new coronavirus deaths and 40,607 new cases were reported in the United States on Sept. 2. Over the past week, there have been an average of 41,618 cases per day, a decrease of 12 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Thursday morning, more than 6,129,400 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 185,600 have died


The coronavirus has left no state unscathed. But its impact has been wildly uneven.

Officials in California, Florida and Texas, the states with the most known cases, have each identified more than 600,000 cases. In a few less populous states, including Vermont and Wyoming, there are fewer than 5,000 patients. And in a handful of remote counties, there has been not even one positive test.

The nation’s most populous places have all suffered tremendously. In Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, more than 5,000 people have died. In Los Angeles County, Calif., at least 238,000 people have had the virus, more than in most states. And in New York City, about one of every 360 residents has died.

But unlike in the early days of the pandemic, it is not so simple to say that big cities have been hit hardest. On a per capita basis, many of the places with the most cases have been small and mid-sized metros in the Southwest with large Native American or Hispanic populations. In Yuma County, Ariz., along the country’s border with Mexico, about one of every 18 residents is known to have had the virus. In McKinley County, N.M., which includes part of the hard-hit Navajo Nation, one of every 300 residents has died from Covid-19.