As the pandemic total topped 51 million cases today, hospitalizations in the United States neared earlier peaks and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use for Eli Lilly's antibody treatment.At the global level, disease activity steepened in parts of Europe, and Denmark backtracked on a decision to order a large mink cull following the identification of mink variant SARS-CoV-2 viruses that jumped to humans.Dramatic US increasesThe United States' daily COVID-19 total easily topped 100,000 cases again yesterday, with 111,433 cases, plus 590 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins online dashboard.