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More recently, reports of successful vaccine trials raised hope. But it will take some time until they are approved and widely distributed among the population. In the northern hemisphere in particular, the corona situation is currently worsening during the cold season. This also and especially applies to the US Since the pandemic began, more than a quarter of a million people have died there after becoming infected with the virus.
This came out on Wednesday night (local time) from data from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. No other country in the world has seen such a high number of deaths. 50,000 people have died since the end of September alone.
The United States is at a “dangerous point” in the pandemic, Admiral Brett Giroir, who is a member of the Corona task force at the White House, told MSNBC on Wednesday. “Right now we are seeing the strongest increase in the number of cases, our hospital admissions are increasing by 25 percent week over week, our deaths are increasing by 25 percent each week, and this is not moving in the right direction.” .
New six-digit infection numbers every day
The health official emphasized that this is not false scaremongering. The rate of increase in cases at no other point in the pandemic was so severe. New infections per day are at a very high level in the US More than 100,000 new infections have been reported every day since early November; on Tuesday there were about 162,000.
The United States is the country with the most proven infections with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2. The death toll in the country of around 330 million people is the highest in absolute numbers to date, followed by Brazil with around 166,700 deaths and India with just under 131,000.
In relation to the number of inhabitants, the number of victims is higher in Belgium, Spain and Argentina than in the United States. According to Johns Hopkins University, there are 130 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants in Belgium, 89 in Spain and 81 in Argentina. In the United States, the figure has so far been 76 people per 100,000 inhabitants, comparable to Italy. In Germany, by contrast, so far there have been 16 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
Over and over accusations against Trump
The Johns Hopkins University website is updated regularly and therefore mostly shows a higher level than the official figures from the US health authority CDC. In some cases, the university’s figures were later corrected. The CDC said the death toll on Wednesday night (local time) was around 248,000. The Sars-CoV-2 pathogen can trigger Covid-19 disease, which can be life-threatening, especially for the elderly or immunosuppressed.
Critics accuse current President of the United States, Donald Trump, of gross negligence in the pandemic. More recently, Trump commented on the progress made in vaccine development, but not on the dramatic increase in the number of cases. President-elect Joe Biden called for immediate action by the Trump administration. He wants to make fighting the pandemic a priority once he moves into the White House. The inauguration is scheduled for January 20.
