An additional 3,401 Americans lost their lives to the coronavirus on Tuesday, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University. It marks the fifth time that the nation’s daily COVID-19 death toll has topped 3,000 this month—the five worst daily death tolls of the entire pandemic so far—and brings the total number of coronavirus-related deaths to 322,765. Tuesday’s horrendous figures also showed another 195,033 new cases of the disease, and the number of current hospitalizations surged to a record of 117,777 people. California is expected on Wednesday to top 2 million cases—six weeks after it passed 1 million cases, a toll that took 10 months to accrue. Dr. John Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children’s Hospital, told ABC News that the dire situation will only get worse, saying: “Layering in the December holiday travel and gatherings means we will have a third jump in this wave, or a surge on surge on surge.”