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On April 1, 2020, the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York, United States, sees a sad and tired healthcare worker.
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According to data released by the World Health Organization, the United States has just had its deadliest day on record due to the coronavirus as states across the country begin to ease restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of the virus.
The United States saw 2,909 people die of Covid-19 within 24 hours, according to the data, which was collected starting at 4 a.m. ET Friday. That’s the highest number of daily Covid-19 deaths in the United States to date, according to a CNBC analysis of the WHO’s daily Covid-19 status reports.
Before May 1, the next highest daily death toll in the US USA It was 2,471 reported on April 23, according to the WHO. State officials previously warned that data on Covid-19 deaths is difficult to analyze because they often represent patients who became ill and were hospitalized weeks ago.
WHO representatives did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The country’s deadliest day comes when state officials weigh the reopening of parts of the economy and facilitate orders to stay home. Public health officials and epidemiologists have warned that as the public becomes fatigued by the restrictions and businesses reopen, the virus could quickly spread to communities that have not yet experienced a major epidemic.
Protesters in at least 10 states on Friday demanded that the government lift orders to stay home and other emergency measures have been implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Among the states that saw protests are California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee, and Washington.
Dozens of states have submitted reopening plans, and several, including Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, have already begun allowing nonessential retailers to reopen.
New York State, which has reported more than 27% of all confirmed cases in the US. According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, it has been the worst part of the US outbreak. USA Until now. The state has reported at least 24,039 of the country’s 65,173 Covid-19 deaths, according to Hopkins.
The death toll from the deadliest Covid-19 day in the United States rivals that of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which claimed the lives of 2,973 people in one day, according to a government commission.
Incomplete data
WHO data differs from data collected by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. USA, which does not report the daily historical deaths of Covid-19. The CDC site says 2,349 people died in the United States of Covid-19 on May 1.
However, the agency cautions that your data may not be complete. CDC spokeswoman Kate Grusich told CNBC that the agency’s data is “validated through a confirmation process with jurisdictions.”
“The CDC does not know the exact number of COVID-19 illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for a variety of reasons,” the agency says, adding that asymptomatic patients, reporting delays, and limited testing make it difficult to accurately track the data.
Some cities, such as New York City, have struggled to gain a complete understanding of the Covid-19 death toll. Many patients die at home and others are attributed to heart attacks or other conditions that could have been exacerbated by Covid-19, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said last month.
To further complicate Covid-19’s death reporting system is that the mortuary system in affected cities like New York is overwhelmed by the increase in victims. Funeral homes, caught in the middle of the bottleneck, have had to store dead bodies in refrigerated trucks, or in some cases any storage unit they can find.
The CDC cautions that all the data at this time is “provisional” and that the agency may not have a more accurate count until December of next year.
Potential treatment
The US Food and Drug Administration. USA It has granted an emergency use authorization for the drug remdesivir from Gilead Sciences to treat Covid-19, President Donald Trump announced Friday.
The EUA means that remdesivir has not undergone the same level of review as an FDA-approved treatment, according to an agency fact sheet on the drug. However, doctors will be able to use the medication in hospitalized patients with the disease, even if the medication has not been formally approved by the agency.
The intravenous medication has helped shorten the recovery time of some hospitalized patients with Covid-19, new clinical trial data suggests. Without other proven treatments, healthcare workers will likely consider using it.
The FDA previously authorized the emergency use of antimalarial drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19. However, he later issued a warning against taking medications outside a hospital or in a formal clinical trial setting after learning of reports of “serious heart rhythm problems” in patients.
According to the EUA, the FDA will allow the drug to be administered for either a five-day or a 10-day dose. A 10-day treatment regimen is preferred for intubated patients.
“That will allow Gilead to effectively double supply,” said former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb during an interview on CNBC’s “Closing Bell”.
The company said it will continue to support clinical trials and expand so-called compassionate use programs to remdesivir.
– CNBC’s Berkeley Lovelace, Yelena Dzhanova and Hannah Miller contributed to this report.
