US surpasses 26 million Covid-19 cases

A patient is brought into a Brooklyn hospital that has seen a high number of Covid-19 patients on January 27, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

There have been at least 26,012,880 total cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 438,239 people have died from Covid-19 since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. 

From the first case of Covid-19 in the US in January 2020, it took the nation 311 days, until Nov. 27, 2020, to reach 13 million total Covid-19 cases.

The US took just 64 days to reach the second 13 million cases.