A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 66.4 million people and killed over 1.5 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Colorado's first gentleman Marlon Reis, who was diagnosed with the coronavirus last week with his partner Gov. Jared Polis, was hospitalized Sunday after his condition worsened, the governor's office said.
Reis experienced a "slightly worsening cough and shortness of breath," on his eighth day of the virus, according to the governor's office.
Polis drove Reis in his own vehicle to the hospital, according to the governor's office.
"Governor Polis is not experiencing any additional symptoms at this time," the governor's office said in a statement.
-ABC News' Clayton Sandell
The U.S. has hit another record level for coronavirus related hospitalizations, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
Our daily update is published. States reported 1.6 million tests, 177k cases, and 1,138 deaths. 101,487 people are currently hospitalized with COVID, another new record. Averaged across the last 7 days, each of our core metrics is at record levels. pic.twitter.com/z9RbCtA8Zo
— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) December 7, 2020
There are at least 101,487 Americans hospitalized as of Sunday evening, the tracking project tweeted.
There were over 176,000 new cases and 1,138 new deaths recorded Sunday, according to the health data.
The seven-day average for the tracking project's main metrics also saw new record highs. The seven-day average for new cases was 191,736, for deaths were 2,171 and hospitalizations were 99,939, according to the health data.
The U.S. has now reported over 100,000 cases every day for more than a month straight, and over 200,000 cases for the last three consecutive days, according to health data.
The country reported more than 1.3 million COVID-19 cases in the last week, which is more than any other week on record, the health data showed.
In the last month, the average number of daily cases has doubled.
The U.S. is currently averaging over 186,793 new coronavirus cases every day, the highest the average has been since the beginning of the pandemic, according to health data.
Since last week, there have been nearly new 15,000 COVID-19 related deaths, with five days over the 2,000 mark, the health data showed.
That is roughly equivalent to 88 COVID-19 related deaths reported every hour.
The U.S. is currently averaging 2,123 reported COVID-19 deaths a day, that average has increased by 142% since last month, according to the health data.
Hospitalizations continue to surge to unprecedented levels, with over 101,000 patients currently hospitalized with COVID-19 across the country, according to the health data.
Current hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the last month, the health data showed.
-ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos
Los Angeles County set a new record number of coronavirus cases Sunday, the Health Department said.
The county saw 10,528 new cases and 23 new deaths, according to the Health Department. There are 2,855 people currently hospitalized, the Health Department said.
Los Angeles leads the country with total number of cases, 439,408, and total fatalities, 7,886, according to Johns Hopkins University's Coronavirus Resource Center.
There were 180,098 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the United States on Tuesday, according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
It's the 29th straight day that the country has reported over 100,000 newly diagnosed infections. Tuesday's count is down from a peak of 205,557 new cases last Friday.
An additional 2,597 fatalities from COVID-19 were also registered nationwide on Tuesday, just under the all-time high of 2,609 new deaths on April 15.
COVID-19 data may be skewed in the coming days and weeks due to possible lags in reporting over Thanksgiving followed by a potentially very large backlog from the holiday.
A total of 13,725,917 people in the United States have been diagnosed with COVID-19 since the pandemic began, and at least 270,669 of them have died, according to Johns Hopkins. The cases include people from all 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C. and other U.S. territories as well as repatriated citizens.
Much of the country was under lockdown by the end of March as the first wave of pandemic hit. By May 20, all U.S. states had begun lifting stay-at-home orders and other restrictions put in place to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. The day-to-day increase in the country's cases then hovered around 20,000 for a couple of weeks before shooting back up over the summer.
The numbers lingered around 40,000 to 50,000 from mid-August through early October before surging again to record levels, crossing 100,000 for the first time on Nov. 4 and reaching 200,000 for the first time on Nov. 27.
