Coronavirus kills more people in the US in one day than on September 11

Most Americans will tell you; September 11, 2001 sits deep in their minds as one of the nation’s darkest days.

It was the country’s deadliest day in modern times.

It was the single deadliest terrorist attack in human history; 2,977 died.

Now, COVID-19 has trumped that grim marker, with more than 3,000 people dying with the disease on Wednesday (local time), according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

It will now likely become the yard stick society uses to rationalise the grief next time there’s a human tragedy that kills on an industrial scale.

And while coronavirus is incomparable in many ways to the sudden toll from a terrorist attack on American…