(CNN) After the first cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the United States on January 20, it took almost 100 days to reach 1 million infections. Now, the country has added more than 1 million cases to its grim total in just five days. From Tuesday to Saturday, 1,000,882 new coronavirus cases were reported in the US, according to data from Johns Hopkins University , bringing the total to more than 14.5 million confirmed cases and 281,199 deaths from the virus. On the second day of December, more than 200,000 new cases were reported for the previous 24 hours. But Wachter says that if adults get vaccinated, children could reap the benefits.
