The global record for confirmed cases of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus rose above 87 million Thursday, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll rose above 1.88 million. The U.S. has the world’s highest death rate at 21.3 million and the highest death toll at 361,207, or more than a fifth of the global total. As the country watched events in Washington, DC with dismay, the U.S. lost 3,963 lives to COVID Wednesday, mostly in one day since the uprising began, according to a New York Times regulator , and accounted for another 255,730 new cases. In the past week, the U.S. has averaged 230,610 cases per day, numbers that experts had warned of American travel in large numbers in the recent holiday season. There are currently 132,476 top COVID-19 patients in U.S. hospitals, according to the COVID Administration Project, breaking the record of 131,215 set a day earlier. Brazil has the second highest death tax at 198,974 and is the third with cases at 7.9 million. India ranks second worldwide in cases with 10.4 million, and third in deaths at 150,336. Mexico has the fourth highest death tax at 129,987 and the 13th highest case at 1.5 million. The UK has 2.8 million cases and 77,470 deaths, the highest in Europe and the fifth highest in the world.