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Xinhua News Agency, Washington, December 8 Summary: The number of confirmed cases of new corona in the United States exceeds 15 million, an additional one million in 5 days.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Tan Jingjing
Statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States surpassed 15 million on the 8th. The number of confirmed cases in the United States rose from 14 million cases on the 3rd to 15th. 8 million cases in just 5 days, the highest growth rate since the outbreak.
In an interview with reporters from the Xinhua News Agency, licensed epidemiologists said that the recent increase in the number of cases in the United States has reached a record high. This is related to the large amount of travel, meetings and “fatigue” caused by the epidemic during Thanksgiving Day. The continuous increase in the number of cases makes it difficult to follow up close contacts of infected people. Only when the public takes effective steps to prevent and control the epidemic can it gradually ease.
Data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Day 8 showed that 186,215 new confirmed cases of new crowns and 1,532 new deaths were reported on Day 7 in the United States on Day 7. This is the thirtieth consecutive day that the number of new confirmed cases in a single day exceeded 100,000. Last week, there were more than 200,000 new cases of new crowns in a single day.
The US “Atlantic Monthly” launched the National Epidemic Tracking Project on the 8th and announced that, as of that day, there were 104,600 patients hospitalized with new crowns in the United States, the highest record since the outbreak; for two weeks, the number of hospitalized cases in 31 US states. The number of deaths from new coronaviruses in the central, western, southern and western regions has reached the highest level since the outbreak. There is a delay in the statistics during Thanksgiving. The recent increase in the number of confirmed cases and deaths may be related to the holiday effect.
Zhang Zuofeng, vice dean of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of epidemiology, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the current spread of the new corona virus in the United States is becoming increasingly faster, and the number of infected people has increased significantly. During Thanksgiving, family and friends gatherings are related, on the other hand, it may be because people have been home too long and have gradually lost patience and have relaxed their protection and surveillance measures against viruses .
He said the current number of COVID-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, posing great challenges in tracing close contacts of infected people. Only when the public takes appropriate prevention and control measures, insist on wearing masks, maintain social distancing and try to avoid gatherings of family and friends, can the epidemic be gradually alleviated.
President-elect Biden presented his future epidemic prevention and control goals within 100 days of taking office at a press conference on the 8th, including vaccinating 100 million Americans against the new crown. , allow people to wear masks widely and allow more students to return to school safely. .
Biden said that the new corona virus will not disappear within 100 days of taking office, but believes that within 100 days, the trajectory of the epidemic may change and the lives of Americans will develop in a better direction. .
