US death toll is 114 times the total lives lost on Sept. 11
At least 342,734 lives have been lost to COVID-19 in the U.S., representing approximately 18.9% of the total global death toll of 1.8 million people.
One in every 965 Americans has now died from the virus, according to ABC News’ of data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project.
The U.S. death toll is 114 times the total lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and just over half the total number of deaths that were recorded in U.S. during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
At least 19.7 million Americans have tested positive for COVID-19 in the 345 days since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first U.S. case on Jan. 21.
That means about 1 in every 16 Americans has contracted the virus.
ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.