Over 350,000 cumulative deaths…More than 100,000 hospitalized patients on the 32nd day
1.2 million people climbed on the trip last weekend…4.2 million people vaccinated in 3 weeks
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The number of new coronavirus infections (Corona 19) in the U.S. a day reached 300,000, the highest.
The US public radio NPR reported on the 3rd (local time) that, as of the 2nd, the number of new coronavirus patients in the U.S. was counted to 299,087, citing data from Johns Hopkins University. Currently, the cumulative number of coronavirus patients in the United States is about 2,062 million. The New York Times (NYT) analyzed that the number of new confirmed cases appears to have increased a lot as reports from some state governments that were missing from the corona patient statistics on the first day of the new year were added up a day later. Along with this, more than 350,000 Americans died from corona. Johns Hopkins University has counted the cumulative corona death toll in the United States at 351,450. On the 14th of last month, an additional 50,000 people died 20 days after the cumulative death toll exceeded 300,000.
Analysis has been raised that the number of corona deaths in the United States will increase as the third pandemic in winter and family gatherings and travel overlap during the Christmas and New Year holidays. According to the US Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), on the first weekend of the new year, on the 2nd, 1,122,881 people passed the airport checkpoint and went on a trip. This is the largest since the corona crisis.
Inpatients, a leading indicator of corona deaths, have maintained more than 100,000 people for over a month. The’Corona 19 Tracking Project’, which aggregates the current status of corona patients, revealed that as of the 2nd, the number of hospitalized patients recorded 12,639. It is the 32nd day that more than 100,000 corona patients have been maintained. “The situation could get worse in the next few weeks,” said Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the nation’s leading infectious disease expert. Diagnosed.
In Los Angeles (LA) County, California, faced with a medical turmoil due to a surge in coronavirus patients, a beep sounded that it was heading out of control. The average number of confirmed cases per day in LA County last week was 16,193, 12 times the average of 1,347 confirmed cases per day in early November last year, NYT reported. LA Mayor Eric Gassetti appeared on CBS and warned, “There are confirmed cases in LA County every 6 seconds,” and “What is happening in LA could and will happen in other regions.”
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As such, depressing indicators continue to be reported that the corona will be raging in the new year, but vaccinations are proceeding slower than planned. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the number of people who completed the first vaccination at 9 am on the 2nd day, the 20th day of vaccination, was 4.25,756 people, and that the vaccine was distributed nationwide for 13.71 million doses . This is far below the federal government’s goal of completing 20 million vaccinations by the end of last year. CNN broadcast pointed out that “the vaccine vaccination is slower than expected, and the results so far are far below the (target value).” Told.
“The vaccination is lower than the target we wanted,” said Pouch, and said he hopes the vaccination will speed up by the end of the month. “Some hope is that 1.5 million doses have been given in the last 72 hours. “It’s an average of 500,000 servings per day, which is much better than the beginning,” he said. “We’re not where we want right now, but if we accelerate and gain momentum, we’ll see what will happen in the first two weeks of January.”
/ Reporter Ji Woong-bae [email protected]
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