The United States shattered the record for Covid-19 cases in a single day with 80,622 infections reported Wednesday, the latest NBC News tally showed.
It was the first time the U.S. crossed the 80,000-case threshold since the start of the pandemic and the third time in a week that a daily case record was broken, the data showed.
The 996 Covid-19 fatalities reported Wednesday raised the national death toll to near 228,000, which is the most in the world, according to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 dashboard.
The dire development came with Election Day less than a week away and as…
