The population of the United States is 4.25% of world population. In the 7-day daily average ending Dec. 26 it had 29% of new COVID-19 cases and 20.8% of average daily deaths.

Over the whole course of the virus the U.S. has had 52,244,696 cases and 814,970 deaths, 18.7% and 15.1% respectively of world totals.