On the 30th of last month, a yellow no-access tape was installed around a nursing home “Good Samaritan Society” in Shimla, a southeastern town in Denver, Colorado. A 20-year-old man working here the day before was confirmed for the first time in the U.S. for corona19 mutation. Shimla=AP Yonhap News
The cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States, the world’s largest new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) victim, surpassed 20 million on New Year’s Day. It took less than two months to double after surpassing 10 million in 10 months. The trend of the spread of mutant infections originating in the UK is also not unusual.
The U.S. Johns Hopkins University counted the number of corona 19 confirmed cases in the U.S. on the 1st (local time) to 20,7,149, and the cumulative death toll at 346,043, respectively. 20 million people are equivalent to 6% of the total U.S. population 3228.2 million (based on the U.S. Census Bureau). This means that 1 in 17 Americans have been infected with Corona 19.
The momentum for the re-proliferation of Corona 19, which began in earnest from autumn, is scary. It took almost ten months (294 days) from the time the first positive patient came out on January 20 last year until the cumulative confirmed cases reached 10 million (November 9 last year), but it takes less than two months to add 10 million people. Did.
The situation is still worsening. Mutant virus infections, known to be more contagious, are spreading across the country. In Colorado and California, mutant infections have already emerged, and on the 31st of last month, a man in his twenties in Martin County, Florida, was confirmed to have a mutant virus. In San Diego, California, the number of mutants has increased from 1 to 4 men.
What’s serious is that most infected people have no travel history. This means that the mutant virus has already landed and is spreading in the local community, and there will be more confirmed cases in the future.
Here, the bad news of the New Year holidays is superimposed. According to the U.S. Transportation Safety Administration (TSA), on December 30th, the number of travelers (about 1163,000) in the U.S. was the fourth largest after the pandemic (a global pandemic), exceeding 1 million for 5 consecutive days. CNN broadcast said. Millions of people have gone on a trip without worrying about the warnings of the CDC, the state government, and experts saying’stay at home’.
There are also more people who die. December of last year was recorded as the month with the highest number of corona deaths in the United States. In one month alone, 75,000 people were sacrificed.
But the future is darker. The Corona 19 Tracking Project counted 125,000 hospitalized patients for Corona 19 on December 31, CNN reported on the 1st. It is the highest after the pandemic and the result of breaking the record for four consecutive days. Since the number of hospitalized patients is a leading indicator of the number of deaths, there is a high likelihood of more deaths in the future.
The United States is the country with the most COVID-19 infections and deaths in the world. As of this day, 23.9% of the cumulative confirmed cases (8,3689,000 people) around the world and 19.0% of the world (1823,000 people) died.
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