The United States Reaches Another Terrible Milestone: 350,000 COVID-19 Deaths | The State
The United States arrived this Saturday at 20,427,780 confirmed cases and the number of 350,196 deaths from covid-19, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
The grim number occurs when a new variant of the coronavirus is spreading to dozens of countries.
The variant of the coronavirus was first detected last month in the UK and has now spread to dozens of countries, likely transmitted by infected people who traveled the world and unknowingly brought the microscopic invaders with them.
The variant is now found in dozens of countries, including the United States, where it has infected people in Colorado, California and Florida.
On Friday 1st. January, the milestone of more than 20 million cases was reached, which implies that the number of infections in the United States doubled in less than two months, since the first 10 million cases were reached on November 9.
This data illustrates the seriousness of the regrowth in the United States, which in December registered several daily records in the death toll from covid-19 and closed 2020 with a record high of more than 125,000 hospitalized for the disease.
Even if you don’t have coronavirus, record-breaking COVID-19 hospitalizations could have a devastating impact on you.
“If you are in a car accident, you want us to save your life,” said the Dr. Brad Spellberg, medical director of the Los Angeles County University of Southern California Medical Center to CNN.
Some hospitals in the United States began to run out of health personnel months ago. But the Christmas gatherings are fueling new waves of Covid-19, hospitalizations.
“We’re seeing people who have gotten together for Thanksgiving, or who have gotten together for other reasons (and) they really didn’t understand, even to this point, what was at stake,” Spellberg said.
In all the country, 125,379 people were hospitalized with Covid-19 on Thursday, more than any other day in the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project. The number of patients also topped 125,000 on Friday, but dropped slightly on Saturday to 123,639. The United States has remained above 100,000 hospitalizations for 32 days in a row.
Our daily update is published. States reported 2.1 million tests, a record 276k cases, 123,639 people hospitalized, and 2,367 COVID-19 deaths. We believe that holiday reporting is still causing major oscillations in the data. pic.twitter.com/RgHdjXC9tj
– The COVID Tracking Project (@ COVID19Tracking) January 3, 2021
“It is a total collapse of the health system if we have another peak,” Spellberg said.
“And we in the hospital cannot stop that. We can only react. It is the public that has the power to stop the spread of this virus by obeying the public health guidelines that have been published.
If someone in your house tests positive for # COVID19, you can spread it even if you have no symptoms:
Set that person apart from others, if possible.
Put on a mask when you treat her.
Wash your hands and disinfect surfaces regularly.More: https://t.co/GdvrPjB1Ba pic.twitter.com/hpSZG91vk3
– CDC in Spanish (@CDCespanol) January 2, 2021
A difficult start to the new year
As the Americans hailed the new year, more than 10,000 families mourned the new loss of a loved one by Covid-19.
They reported at least 10,901 deaths from Covid-19 in the last three days of 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University. That’s about 3,633 deaths a day, more than the number of lives lost during the September 11 attacks.
In less than 11 months, Covid-19 has killed nearly 350,000 people in the United States.
And another 115,000 people could die from the disease in the next month, based on projections from the University of Washington Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
With information from EFE and CNN
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