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Summary: The United States reports that the daily increase in confirmed cases exceeds 400,000, the model predicts that accumulated deaths will exceed 560,000 in April of next year
Xinhua News Agency 2020-12-21
Data shows that 230,953 new confirmed cases were reported in the United States on the 17th. Previously, the highest record of newly confirmed cases in a single day in the United States was 244,011 reported on the 11th.
Report by Xinhua News Agency, Washington, December 19: The United States reports that the number of confirmed cases exceeds 400,000 per day. The model predicts that cumulative deaths will exceed 560,000 in April next year.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Tan Jingjing
Epidemic data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 19th showed that on the 18th, more than 400,000 new confirmed cases of new corona were reported in the United States, reaching 403,359, a record for the number of new cases confirmed in a single day in a country around the world; new deaths There are 2756 cases.
Data shows that 230,953 new confirmed cases were reported in the United States on the 17th. Previously, the highest record for recently confirmed cases in a single day in the United States was 244,011 reported on the 11th. The center said Texas began reporting probable cases on the 18th and a total of 171,505 probable cases were reported, such as As a result, Texas reported 184,748 new cases that day.
According to the National Epidemic Tracking Project started by The Atlantic Monthly, a possible case refers to a case that has not been confirmed by the laboratory, but clinical indicators, epidemiological evidence and many other evidences show that it is more likely that there is been infected with the new crown. The definition standard is higher than the suspected case. Case. The reporting of possible cases in different states of the United States is different, and the new crown cases reported in some states include possible cases.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also showed that, as of day 18, the United States had an average daily increase of nearly 240,000 confirmed cases of new crowns in the past seven days, a record since the outbreak. ; the average daily increase in deaths in the last seven days was close to 2,600.
The latest epidemic model forecast published by the Institute for Health Statistics and Evaluation at the University of Washington in the United States shows that the number of new deaths in a single day in the United States will continue to rise, and will exceed 3,750 per day in mid-January of next year; By April 1 of next year, the United States will accumulate New crown deaths may reach 562,000, which means there will be more than 200,000 deaths before April next year.
The US Food and Drug Administration approved on the 18th an emergency use authorization request for the new corona vaccine developed by the US biotechnology company Modena. This is the second new corona vaccine approved for emergency use in the United States and is allowed for use in people 18 years of age and older. On the 11th of this month, the US Drug Administration approved the emergency use of the new corona vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. and German Biotech.
Gustav Perner, head of the “Operation Speed” plan in the United States to promote the development, manufacture and distribution of new vaccines and corona drugs, said on the 19th that the distribution of the new corona vaccine in Modena has begun and will reach several states on the 21 ..
Statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that as of the night of the 19th Eastern Time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 17.6 million and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 315,000.
Publisher: Bao She
