The cumulative new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) confirmed in the U.S. surpassed 24 million on the 19th (local time).
It has been a year since the first corona19 infection in the United States on January 20 last year.
The U.S. Johns Hopkins University counted the cumulative number of corona19 confirmed cases in the U.S. on that day at 24094,000 and the cumulative death toll at 399,000, respectively.
The United States is the country with the highest number of COVID-19 infections and deaths in the world. The number of infections in the U.S. accounts for 25.2% of the global confirmed cases (9,5725,000 people) and 19.5% of the world’s (2045,000 people) deaths.
24 million people are 7.3% of the total U.S. population 3228.2 million (based on the U.S. Census Bureau), which means that 1 in 14 Americans have been infected with Corona 19.
CNN reported on the 19th that more than 60% of the 24 million cumulative infected people occurred after the US presidential election on November 3 last year.
In just two and a half months, there were more confirmed cases than those who had been infected in the previous 10 months. This is the point where we can estimate the explosive spread of the 3rd pandemic in the fall and winter.
The cumulative death toll also reached 400,000. CNN analyzed that 400,000 deaths were more than the total number of Americans who died in World War I, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined. It is also almost equal to the number of Americans killed in World War II.
As of the 18th, the Corona 19 Tracking Project counted the number of patients hospitalized for Corona 19 in the United States at 123,000.
This is a decrease of about 9,000 from the previous record of 13,474 on the 6th, but in Georgia, hospitals and medical staff are still under tremendous pressure, such as a hospital treating patients in corridors and ambulances, CNN said. .
In addition, in Laredo, Texas, when an intensive care unit (ICU) was running, city authorities sent an urgent message to residents to’stay at home’. Also over the weekend, hospitals in the city sent patients to hospitals in other areas.
However, in the United States as a whole, it seems that the sudden increase in the number of infected people has been braked. According to CNN, the average number of new infections per day for the last week was about 207,000, down 10% from the previous week, which peaked.
But health experts still warn that you should not be vigilant.
“The virus has established its position among people and will not go anywhere,” said infectious disease expert Dr. Amesh Adalja. “You will see many cases of transmission until you cross the threshold for collective immunity.”
Even if the rapid increase has stopped, there are still a whopping 200,000 new confirmed cases a day, and a mutant coronavirus originating from the UK, which is known to have 70% strong additional spreading power, has also landed in the United States and is spreading in local communities.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), more than 120 mutant virus cases have been confirmed in the United States so far in 20 states.
Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, who joined President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory group, said, “In the next 6 to 12 weeks, we will see what we’ve seen so far regarding this pandemic. “I am very worried because I think I will see a different situation.”
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