The U.S. has passed the grim milestone of 30 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, with over 545,000 deaths. 

Brazil has over 12 million cases, with India close behind. Russia, France, and the UK all have over 4.3 million. Globally, over 2.7 million have died.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 383,000,000 COVID-19 tests have been carried out in the U.S. alone, resulting in over 30,000,000 positive results. 

Here's the timeline of how the U.S. got to over 30,000,000, according to figures from John Hopkins University.

1/21/2020: 1st confirmed case in U.S. 

97 days later: 1 million (4/27/20)

44 days later:  2 million (on 6/10/20)

43 days later: 5 million (7/23/20)

108 days later: 10 million (11/8/20)

53 days later: 20 million (12/31/20)

82 days later: 30 million (3/23/21)