10 things you need to know today: January 4, 2022

U.S. daily coronavirus infections hit a record 1 million, N.Y. attorney general subpoenas Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, and more

Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump, pictured in 2017.
Donald Trump, Jr., and Ivanka Trump, pictured in 2017.
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1. U.S. new COVID cases hit single-day record of over 1 million

New coronavirus infections jumped to a record of 1,082,549 on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The surge has come as the highly infectious Omicron coronavirus variant continues to tear across the country. More than 103,000 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 on Monday, the most since the late summer surge, according to The Washington Post. Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have risen by 27 percent in the past week as the daily average of new cases more than doubled, but deaths declined by 8 percent. The total number of coronavirus cases in the U.S. has now reached 56,189,547, with 827,748 U.S. deaths. President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are scheduled to meet with the White House coronavirus response team on Tuesday to discuss steps to counter the Omicron spike.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.