Thread by @NBCNews

US coronavirus data for Wednesday, Dec. 9, according to @NBCNews count:

• Cases: 222,994 (record)
• Deaths: 3,103 (record)

US is averaging 2,307 deaths/day over the last week, up from 1,213 deaths/day four weeks ago.

Single-day coronavirus case records set in US states Wednesday:

ID: 4,310 cases (reported zero on Tues.)
MS: 2,746
TN: 8,213
VA: 4,398

Coronavirus death records set in US states Wednesday:

CO: 149 deaths
ID: 48 (reported zero on Tues.)
NM: 67 (reported zero on Tues.)
WV: 31

US coronavirus cases (weekdays):

Nov 23: 178,757
Nov 24: 173,429
Nov 25: 183,233
Nov 26: 124,891 (Thanksgiving)
Nov 27: 192,674
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Nov 30: 163,873
Dec 1: 181,112
Dec 2: 204,943
Dec 3: 219,394
Dec 4: 187,078
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Dec 7: 214,547
Dec 8: 222,211
Dec 9: 222,994 (record)

US coronavirus deaths:

Nov 16: 894
Nov 17: 1,527
Nov 18: 1,798
Nov 19: 1,945
Nov 20: 1,904

Nov 23: 1,164
Nov 24: 1,925
Nov 25: 2,073
Nov 26: 1,239
Nov 27: 1,558

Nov 30: 1,316
Dec 1: 2,380
Dec 2: 2,777
Dec 3: 2,802
Dec 4: 2,669

Dec 7: 1,789
Dec 8: 2,271
Dec 9: 3,103 (record)

The US set single-day records in both reported coronavirus cases (222,994) and reported coronavirus deaths (3,103) on Wednesday, per @NBCNews count.

In total:

• 15,434,497 cases have been reported
• 290,088 people in the US have died of the virus

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