In the first 11 days of January, the U.S. reported more than 30,000 lives lost to COVID-19 -- that's more deaths in 11 days than the entire month of August.

The virus is now claiming more lives every day than number of Americans killed on Sept. 11, according to ABC News’ analysis of data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project.

Nearly 130,000 people are hospitalized with COVID-19 across the country.

Data released Monday showed six states hitting a record number of current hospitalizations: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Maryland and Virginia.

California has the most people hospitalized of any state with more than 22,000 patients. California is followed by Texas, New York, Florida and Georgia.

ABC News’ Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.

Citi Field, home to the New York Mets, will become a 24/7 mega-vaccination site to open the week of Jan. 25.

The Queens baseball stadium will vaccinate 5,000 to 7,000 people daily.

“We even welcome Yankees fans," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio joked.

Citi Field is the latest sports facility to convert to a mass vaccination site, joining Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium and Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium.

Disneyland is set to become the first mass vaccination site in Orange County, California, later this week.

ABC News’ Aaron Katersky and Mark Crudele contributed to this report.

The closure of the Canada-U.S. border has been extended to Feb. 21.

The border has been closed to all nonessential traffic since March. The closure agreement is reviewed by U.S. and Canadian government authorities each month.

ABC News’ Christine Theodorou contributed to this report.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the federal government will no longer hold back COVID-19 vaccine doses and is now recommending states inoculate anyone 65 and older as well as those under the age of 65 who have two or more conditions or illnesses.

"This is just a staging and moving to the next phase on the vaccine program. We've had so much success with quality and predictable manufacturing and almost flawless distribution of the vaccine, but we have seen now that the administration in the states has been too narrowly focused," Azar told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos in an interview Tuesday on Good Morning America.

"So, what are we doing? Three things. First, We have already made available every dose of vaccine," he said. "So we had been holding back second doses as a safety stock. We now believe that our manufacturing is predictable enough that we can ensure second doses are available for people from ongoing production. So everything is now available to our states and our health care providers."

"Second, we are calling on our governors to now vaccinate people age 65 and over and under age 65 with a comorbidity, because we have got to expand the group," he continued. "We've already distributed more vaccine than we have health care workers and people in nursing homes."

"Third, we've got to get more channels of administration," he added. "We've got to get it to pharmacies, get it to community health centers, and we are here and we will deploy teams to support states doing mass vaccination efforts if they wish to do so. It has been overly hospitalized so far in too many states."

As of 9 a.m. ET on Monday, more than 25 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been distributed nationwide but fewer than 9 million people have received their first dose, according to data provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is calling for "an immediate travel ban from the United Kingdom to the United States."

New York state has 12 cases of the U.K. coronavirus variant, de Blasio said. One of the two cases confirmed in New York City was someone who traveled to the U.K., he said.

“Someone who was in the U.K. has brought the variant back here. We need that stopped. Flights from the United Kingdom should be canceled immediately by the federal government,” de Blasio said.

Beginning Jan. 26, those flying to the U.S. from foreign countries must take a COVID-19 test within three days before their flight, and airlines must confirm the negative test before they board, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.

The U.K. variant appears to spread more easily but there’s no evidence that it is more deadly.

Meanwhile, as New York vaccinates more residents, the mayor said, “even with normal supplies that we expect to have delivered next week, we will run out of vaccine as some point next week unless we get a major new resupply because so many New Yorkers want the vaccine and we have the ability to give it to them.”

“We need the federal government, the state government and the manufactures to step up and get us more supply immediately,” he said.

ABC News’ Rachel Katz contributed to this report.