Just 18 days after the US marked 150,000 lives lost from the novel coronavirus COVID-19, the death toll surpassed 170,000.
Johns Hopkins University data says more than 5.4 million people have been infected and 170,052 have died.
Worryingly, COVID-19 is still spreading rampantly, but there is less testing available.
At the same time, the testing that is available is returning high positivity rates.
