The U.S. has hit another grim milestone during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The country has registered more than 800,000 COVID-19-related deaths during the pandemic, Reuters reported.
NBC News set the number at 800,156, and it is expected to increase before the end of the day Monday, as state and local health departments update their data and more than half the country has seen an increase in deaths over the past two weeks.
To put that into perspective, that is higher than the population of Washington, D.C., Alaska or North Dakota, according to recent U.S. Census records.
It is also more than the population of Seattle or Boston, NBC News reported.
But the population of the U.S. as of Monday was 332,988,754, according to the Census.
According to a poll conducted by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 36% of Americans said they are worried that they or a family member will get sick with COVID-19, an increase from October’s 25% findings, but lower than the results from August.
At the same time, Americans said they are not regularly wearing masks or staying isolated as they had at the start of the year.
The last 100,000 increase in deaths happened in 119 days but the jump from 700,000 to 800,000 happened in only 74 days, NBC News reported.
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