1st LD Writethru: U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 300,000: Johns Hopkins University

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 (Xinhua) -- The United States reached the grim milestone of 300,000 coronavirus deaths on Monday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.

With the national case count topping 16.3 million, the death toll across the United States rose to 300,267 as of 3:26 p.m. local time (2026 GMT), according to the CSSE data.