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The United States reached almost 27 million confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 461,892 deaths from the covid-19 disease this Saturday, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
The balance of this day is 2,862 more deaths than on Friday and 106,441 new infections.
New York State remains the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 44,664 deaths, followed by California (43,732), Texas (39,182), Florida (27,599), Pennsylvania (22,353), New Jersey (21,964) and Illinois (21,676) ).
Other states with large death toll are Michigan (15,854), Georgia (15,090), Massachusetts (14,921), and Arizona (14,011).
In terms of infections, California has 3,400,405, followed by Texas with 2,485,880, third is Florida with 1,771,359, New York is fourth with 1,464,399 and Illinois is fifth with 1,144,281.
The provisional death toll -461,892 – far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House in the days of Donald Trump, which projected in the best of cases between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, has predicted that in February there will be more than half a million deaths and that in total more than 600,000 will die.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that by June 1 some will have died. 630,000.
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