With 115,620 new cases reported on Thursday, the total number of people that have been infected with the coronavirus in the U.S. has risen to 85,329,812, as per Johns Hopkins University's latest data.
290 Covid deaths reported on the same day took the total U.S. Covid casualties to 1,010,805.
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