Over 200,000 confirmed patients a day on the 11th day… Before state governments secure vaccines
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In the U.S., a new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) is spreading in winter and the number of related deaths has reached 400,000.
The U.S. Johns Hopkins University calculated the cumulative number of corona19 confirmed cases in the U.S. on the 16th (local time) at 2,3545,000, and the cumulative death toll at 392,000, respectively.
The United States is the country with the largest number of corona19 confirmed and dead in the world. As of that day, 25.0% of the global confirmed cases (9,0478,000) and 19.5% of the dead (2014,000) came from the United States.
On the 15th, an additional 3,409 people died of Corona 19, 2,15,941 people were confirmed as new infected, and the number of confirmed cases exceeded 200,000 a day for 11 consecutive days.
In December of last year, it was recorded as the month with the highest number of deaths, with about 7,500 victims of Corona 19 in one month, and the situation in January is expected to overtake it. About 46,240 people died by the 15th, which is half of them, and if this trend continues, the death toll is expected to exceed 90,000.
The number of hospitalized patients, which is interpreted as a leading indicator for the trend of deaths, reached 127,000 on the 15th, according to the Corona 19 tracking project. It was a slight decline from 132,476 people on the 6th, which was the highest after the pandemic (a global pandemic).
Meanwhile, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that a variant coronavirus from the UK, which is known to be more contagious, could become the most dominant coronavirus in the United States in March.
Accordingly, the CDC urged the expansion of vaccinations, along with stronger enforcement of masks and social distancing. CDC said, “We may have to achieve higher vaccination rates to protect the public.”
However, state governments responsible for vaccinating the COVID-19 vaccine are expressing frustration and dissatisfaction when the federal government’s promised additional supply of vaccines turned out to be a promise they could not keep. US Minister of Health and Welfare Alix Aza said on the 12th that “most of the vaccines for secondary vaccination stocked by the federal government will be released”, but it turned out that there is no stockpile. Colorado Governor Jared Police said he was “extremely disappointed that he had been told to lie” about the vaccine stockpile. Governor Polis added that all or almost all of the remaining 58,000 doses of vaccine would run out in the 17th.
The governors of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota wrote a letter to Secretary Aiza, saying it would be desirable for the state to purchase vaccines directly from pharmaceutical companies. They said in the letter they would have to cancel the plan for a public vaccination clinic that would vaccinate tens of thousands of people unless approval for an additional supply or direct purchase of the vaccine was made. When” he said.
/ Reporter Noh Hee-young [email protected]
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