COVID-19 pandemic in the United States
As of December 2020, there have been more than 15,300,000 confirmed cases and 289,000 COVID-19-related deaths in the U.S. The U-S. death rate had reached 874 per million people, the fourteenth-highest rate among nations. Disproportionate numbers of cases have been observed among Black and Latino populations. There were reported incidents of xenophobia and racism against Asian Americans.