The United States on Wednesday suffered the highest number of coronavirus deaths since mid-May, making it the deadliest day this summer.
There were 1,503 deaths, according to the Covid Tracking Project.
COVID-19 deaths are lower than their peak in April, when they reached as high as 2,000 per day in the U.S.
But after falling for weeks in the late spring, deaths began increasing in early July amid worsening outbreaks in the South and West.
The persistent death toll in the United States stands in stark contrast to other countries that have more successfully suppressed their outbreaks.
The European Union, whose population exceeds that of the U.S. by more than 100 million, had just 115 deaths on Wednesday, according to statistics compiled by Our World in Data.
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