Johns Hopkins University (UJH) in Baltimore on Wednesday night reported 1707 COVID-19 deaths in the US over the past 161 hours. 934 more people became infected. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in the US, there have been a total of 11 million 498 515 cases of infections. The death toll reaches 250.
Coronavirus: USA. The number of deaths exceeded a quarter of a million
These figures mean that the United States has seen the most deaths from COVID-19 in more than six months. The virus now kills at least one American every minute.
CNN calls it reaching another terrifying milestone since the first virus death on February 29 in Washington state. He also cites Professor Jonathan Reiner of the George Washington University School of Medicine who predicts things will get worse.
“The monstrous number of deaths we saw yesterday in the United States (…) reflects the number of people infected three weeks ago, two to three weeks ago because it comes delayed,” Reiner said on Wednesday.
He recalled that two to three weeks ago, an average of 70 to 000 new cases of infection were diagnosed per day. There were over 80 of them on Tuesday.
So if you are concerned about the current 1700 deaths, in two to three weeks from now we will witness 3000 deaths a day – predicted Dr. Reiner.
According to the Covid Tracking Project, which traces contacts of infected people, while some hospitals have a shortage of health workers, the United States has once again set a new record for COVID-19-related hospitalizations. There were 76 of them on Tuesday.
According to Johns Hopkins, 47 states had a record of at least 10 percent by Wednesday. more new cases per day than in the same time last week. Only in Hawaii, this percentage fell by 10 percent.
Experts deny arguments that America’s increased infection rates are due to the increased number of tests.
Johns Hopkins emphasizes that while the number of new cases increased by 29 percent during the last week, according to the Covid Tracking Project, nationwide, it was only about 11 percent during the same period. more tests.
From New York, Andrzej Dobrowolski (PAP)
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