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Xinhua News Agency, Washington, November 16 Summary: One Million New Cases in Six Days, US Covid-19 Continues to Get Worse
Xinhua News Agency reporter Tan Jingjing Yang Shilong
As of 5:27 PM EST on the 15th (6:27 AM on the 16th Beijing time), the cumulative number of confirmed new corona cases in the United States exceeded 11 million, reaching 11,003,469, and the cumulative number of deaths was 246073. As of November 9, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown in the United States surpassed 10 million to more than 11 million in just 6 days. The growth rate of the number of confirmed cases set a record since the outbreak.
The United States is the country with the most serious COVID-19 pandemic in the world. The cumulative number of confirmed cases currently exceeds one fifth of the total number of confirmed cases worldwide. Recently, a number of epidemic indicators in the United States have recovered severely, continuously setting records during the last week, highlighting the continued deterioration of the epidemic situation.
According to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on the 16th, the United States reported 138,025 new confirmed cases of new corona and 660 new deaths on the 15th. This is the eighth consecutive day in the United States with more than 100,000 new cases confirmed in a single day. On the 12th, the United States reported 194,610 new confirmed cases, setting the highest record for new confirmed cases in a single day in a country worldwide.
As of the 16th, the average number of confirmed cases of new corona in the United States in the past 7 days exceeded 150,000, a new high since the outbreak; the average number of deaths in the last 7 days has also increased, and has surpassed 1,200, which is a new high since the end of May. .
Recently, the number of hospitalized cases in the United States has also increased dramatically, and medical systems in many places are facing unprecedented pressure. According to the latest data from the National Epidemic Tracking Project started by Atlantic Monthly, there are currently nearly 73,000 patients hospitalized with new crowns in the United States, the highest record since the outbreak.
According to the latest epidemic model prediction results published by the University of Washington Institute for Health Statistics and Evaluation, the number of deaths from novel coronaviruses in a single day in the United States may peak in mid-January. from 2021, with about 2,200 new cases per day; by March 1, 2021. Today, the cumulative number of deaths may be close to 440,000.
The institute said in a statement that the number of confirmed cases in the United States is currently increasing at an alarming rate. Based on previous experience in Europe, the increase in the number of new corona deaths could soon catch up with the increase in confirmed cases. Today, nearly every state in the United States is experiencing a “surge” of new crown infections in the fall and winter.
In response to the “surge” and the upcoming “holiday season” in the United States, some states announced new prevention and control measures last weekend. Washington State will close restaurants, dining services in bars and gyms, movie theaters, museums and other facilities in the next 4 weeks; Michigan to Suspend Offline Teaching at College and High School, Restaurants, and Bar Food Services for Next 3 Weeks; New Mexico will continue to implement the 16 A two-week “home order”.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, said on the 15th that, on the one hand, a new effective corona vaccine is needed and, on the other hand, a large proportion of the public must be vaccinated before the United States can. In the second or third quarter of next year it will return to a certain degree of normality.
