The US has hit another milestone of coronavirus.
As of Sunday morning, COVID-19 had infected 5,017,150 people in the US. It killed 727,984 people worldwide and 162,555 in the U.S., and also infected at least 19.7 million people worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
The number of cases of coronavirus is still increasing in all regions of the country. California is now the third U.S. state to register more than 10,000 deaths after New York (32,773 deaths) and New Jersey (15,874 deaths). Texas has the fourth highest death toll (9,060).
California had 555,661 COVID-19 infections, up 6,339 on Saturday, and 10,313 deaths, up 100 on Saturday. Health authorities say the actual number of cases in the US is likely to be much higher than the last milestone figure, given the estimated number of asymptomatic carriers.
The World Health Organization currently estimates that 16% of people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic and can transmit the coronavirus, while other data show that 40% of coronavirus transmission is due to carriers who have no symptoms of COVID-19. display disease.
The infectiousness of asymptomatic individuals relative to those who are symptomatic is 75%, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, based on studies of dynamic “viral shedding” – that is, how much of the virus they transmit through conversation or breathing.
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Last month, Govin Newsom announced a reimbursement of state-wide operations at restaurants like bars, zoos, wineries, museums, card rooms, and cinemas. “This is in every province in the state of California, not just those on the waiting list,” he said.
In addition, the shutdown also affected indoor operations of gyms, places of worship, offices for non-critical offices, hairdressers, beauty salons, indoor malls, and other places of business in 30 counties on the ‘California Monitoring List’, and represented 80% in the state of California.
President Donald Trump on Saturday bypassed the nation’s legislators as he demanded the authority to postpone payroll taxes and replace a past unemployment benefit with a lower amount after negotiations with Congress on a new coronavirus rescue package collapsed.
The executive order and memoranda that provide demonstrable relief amid the intractable coronavirus pandemic do not appear to be possible or legal, analysts said Saturday, adding that the wording of the orders raises more questions than the answers provided.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Task Force on Coronavirus, has been optimistic about a vaccine arriving in late 2020 and early 2021, saying people should continue to social distance and wear masks.
Fauci has said he hoped an early 2021 coronavirus vaccine could be developed, but has previously said it is unlikely a vaccine will deliver 100% immunity; he said the best realistic outcome, based on other faxes, would be 70% to 75% effective.
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