US breaks global record for new daily cases

The United States has surpassed more than 9 million coronavirus cases -- and broke an unfortunate record on Friday with 99,321 new Covid-19 cases reported. That is the highest single-day number of cases for any country.

From Alaska to Maine, at least 31 states reported at least one record-high day of new cases in the past month, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Fifteen reported their highest one-day tallies of Covid-19 deaths.

Now, there’s fear hospitals could become overwhelmed as the number of coronavirus cases continues to climb.

"The fall/winter surge should lead to a daily death toll that is approximately three times higher than now by mid-January," the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation said in its latest Covid-19 forecast.

 

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration, told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that several states are at "the beginning of what looks like exponential growth" and that the US is in a "very worrisome" position heading into winter.