The daily death toll of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States now stands as high as it did during the Delta variant's peak, a grim figure that experts believe will rise.
Statistics show that an average of more than 2,000 people are dying from the virus in the US every day, roughly on par with the deaths seen in late September.
A large portion of the dead are older than 65 years old or unvaccinated.
To date, more than 866,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the US.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the daily average of confirmed COVID-19 deaths surpassed 2,000 on January 21 and stood at 2,033 two days later.
This is just short of where it was at the peak of the surge in Delta variant cases in September.
But there are many more people in hospital now due to the virus than there were back then, due to much higher case loads.
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