On the eve of an election that has become for many Americans a referendum on President Donald Trump’s pandemic performance, Covid-19 cases were rising rapidly in virtually every state as the death toll continued to climb, the latest NBC News figures showed Monday.
Nearly 9.3 million cases have been reported since the start of the pandemic and more than 232,000 have died, both world-leading tallies, the numbers revealed.
In the last two weeks, records for the daily number of new cases have been set and shattered on successive days, most recently Friday when 98,500 infections were reported.
