{"id":1168715,"date":"2021-12-29T09:49:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168715"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T14:49:32","slug":"u-s-smashes-daily-record-for-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-worst-of-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-smashes-daily-record-for-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-worst-of-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Smashes Daily Record for Rise in Coronavirus Cases; Worst of Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-smashes-daily-record-for-rise-in-coronavirus-cases-worst-of-pandemic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168715&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/joe-biden-mask-omicron-coronavirus-wh-121621-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The U.S. broke the daily record for new coronavirus cases on Monday, December 27, as the omicron variant surged \u2014 more than a year after then-candidate Joe Biden promised to contain the virus, mocking then-President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/12\/28\/us-new-daily-high-covid-526223\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. logged its highest single-day total of new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, with 441,278 infections surpassing the previous daily record by close to 150,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s [CDC] tally represents a grim new milestone in the coronavirus pandemic and comes as the Omicron strain has quickly taken hold throughout the U.S., leading to long lines at testing sites and sold-out rapid tests at many stores.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Officials logged more than 291,000 new cases Dec. 20, nearly eclipsing the previous record of 294,015 set last winter, before vaccines were widely available. The U.S. averaged 240,408 new cases per day over the past week, well more than double the rate in early December.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A CDC spokesperson told&nbsp;<em>Politico<\/em> that the record was a possible overestimate due to lagging reports by several states.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Last November, then-candidate Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rev.com\/blog\/transcripts\/joe-biden-drive-in-rally-speech-transcript-cleveland-november-2\">promised<\/a> a rally on the campaign trail: \u201cWhen I\u2019m elected your president, I\u2019m going to act, and I\u2019m going to act on day one. Folks, we\u2019re going to act to get this COVID under control.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We&#8217;re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn&#8217;t have a plan to get this virus under control.<\/p>\n<p>I do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1316894374500962305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden claimed that Trump was paying \u201cno attention\u201d to coronavirus testing \u2014 which the Biden administration has largely ignored since taking office, with the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/joe-biden-admits-failure-on-not-enough-coronavirus-testing\/\">admitting<\/a>&nbsp;Monday he failed to provide adequate tests and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/22\/biden-covid-testing-situation-isnt-a-failure-i-wish-id-thought-about-ordering-a-half-a-billion-pills-two-months-ago\/\">wishing<\/a> he had ordered more tests months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/02\/psaki-dodges-when-asked-if-biden-should-still-be-president-after-presiding-over-more-coronavirus-deaths-than-trump\/\">said<\/a> during the campaign that anyone who had presided over more than 200,000 coronavirus deaths should not be president. There have been over 400,000 additional deaths in the U.S. since Biden took office; the toll is now over 800,000.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the day the record was broken, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/27\/joe-biden-off-to-beach-admitting-no-federal-solution-coronavirus\/\">said<\/a> there was \u201cno federal solution\u201d before leaving for his beach holiday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. broke the daily record for new coronavirus cases on Monday, December 27, as the omicron variant surged \u2014 more than a year after then-candidate Joe Biden promised to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}