US daily coronavirus death toll passes 4,000 for the first time

Syringes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine sit in a tray in a vaccination room at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, California (Jae C. Hong/AP)

The US has topped 4,000 daily deaths from coronavirus for the first time, breaking a record set just one day earlier.

The tally from Johns Hopkins University shows the US had 4,085 deaths.