US saw over 6 million new cases in January alone
January marked the nation's deadliest month of the coronavirus pandemic, with a death total approximately four times the reported number of COVID-19 deaths recorded by the U.S. in any month between June and October 2020, according to an ABC News' analysis of data compiled by The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the U.S. outbreak.
In total, the virus has claimed the lives of over 440,000 people in the U.S., which translates to about 1 in every 747 Americans, according to an ABC News analysis of data collected by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.S. death toll is approximately 147 times the total lives lost during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, and is around 65% of the total number of deaths that were recorded nationwide during the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Although the country's seven-day average of daily COVID-19 deaths appears to be plateauing, the U.S. is still reporting an average of just over 3,100 new deaths from the disease per day, according to The COVID Tracking Project data.
More than 6 million COVID-19 infections were diagnosed nationwide during the month of January, making it the country's second-worst month of the pandemic in terms of confirmed cases, data shows.
Over the weekend, the country's cumulative tally of confirmed cases surpassed 26 million, which signifies that one in every 12 Americans has now tested positive for COVID-19. However, the national seven-day average of daily COVID-19 cases has dropped by 32.3%, the lowest average the country has seen since mid-November, according to The COVID Tracking Project data.
COVID-19 hospitalizations also continue to decline rapidly across the country. The number of COVID-19 patients currently hospitalized nationwide is the lowest since late November.
In total, more than 800,000 people have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. since the start of the pandemic, according to The COVID Tracking Project data.
ABC News' Brian Hartman and Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.