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According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, on February 22 the number of deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States exceeded 500,000. This also means that the number of deaths in the United States due to the new corona epidemic exceeds the total number of deaths in the two world wars and the Vietnam war.
There are currently about 2.46 million deaths from the new coronavirus in the world, and a fifth of them occurred in the United States. The population of the United States represents approximately 5% of the world’s total population.
The United States reported its first death from the new crown about a year ago, subsequently, the number of confirmed cases and deaths increased rapidly, becoming the country with the highest number of cases in the world, with 28 million cases. The number of confirmed cases is double that of India (11 million cases) and Brazil (10 million cases), which are in second place.
“Black winter”
President Biden held a candlelight memorial service at the White House at sunset local time on the 22nd to mourn the dead. In attendance were First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President He Jinli and her husband Ren Delong (Douglas Emhoff).
The front page of the “New York Times” last Sunday depicted the tragedy of the new corona epidemic in the United States with a large dotted graph. Each black dot represents a dead life. It can be seen that the number of new crown deaths has increased dramatically in the “black winter”.
American infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci said in an interview with CNN last Sunday: “Decades later, people will mention this terrible historical milestone. In the history of this country, so many people have died from respiratory transmission. Infection.”
Fauci and several of America’s leading infectious disease experts issued strong warnings at the White House press conference on March 31 last year that even if home isolation and other epidemic prevention measures are fully adopted, the new corona epidemic may still kill more than 240,000 Americans. After less than a year, the number of deaths in the United States has more than doubled than experts originally predicted.
The death toll from the new crown in the United States continues to rise. A forecast from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington shows that between now and June 1 of this year, more than 90,000 people in the United States are expected to die from the new crown. However, the report expects there to be around 500 deaths a day by the end of May, well below the current 2,000 cases.
Recently, the growth rate of recently confirmed cases in the United States has slowed, the number of deaths per day is also decreasing, and the hospitalization rate has decreased for 40 consecutive days. The number of people getting vaccinated is also increasing According to the National Public Radio (NPR) report, since December last year, about 13.1% of the US population has been vaccinated. Currently, 1.8 million doses of vaccine are injected every day in the United States.