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Healthcare professionals administer the COVID-19 vaccine at Lake-Sumter State College in Leesburg, Florida today. Long lines of cars stood at the site as Lake County vaccines are currently administered to people 65 years of age and older and frontline workers.
BALTIMORE >> The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States has exceeded 20 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Deaths from COVID-19 have also increased in the United States, now totaling more than 346,000 people.
This is almost twice as many as the second country, India, and almost a quarter of the more than 83 million cases worldwide.
India and Brazil are behind the United States in coronavirus cases at more than 10 million and 7 million, respectively.
The increase comes as officials rush to vaccinate millions of Americans, but have got off to a slower and more complicated start.
President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration on Tuesday for the pace of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and pledged to step up the current rate of vaccinations.
However, Biden acknowledged that it “will still take months to get the majority of Americans vaccinated.”
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