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Original title: The United States increases the number of new coronary cases More than 200,000 epidemic indicators set a new record
According to Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, December 5
The latest data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Day 5 showed that on Day 4 the United States reported more than 214,000 new confirmed cases of new crowns and more than 2,400 new deaths. The number of newly confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 200,000 in a single day for two consecutive days. After Thanksgiving, multiple epidemic indicators in the United States broke records and medical systems in many places came under severe pressure.
According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 220,000 new confirmed cases were reported in the United States on Day 3, establishing the highest number of new cases in a single country in the world. world since the epidemic. As of April 4, the United States had an average daily increase of nearly 180,000 confirmed cases in the past 7 days, a record since the epidemic; an average daily increase of nearly 2,000 deaths in the past 7 days, the highest record since late April.
According to the latest data published on the 5th by the US project “Atlantic Monthly” to track the epidemic nationwide, the total number of patients hospitalized with new corona in the United States has reached 101,190, an increase of 12% compared to the week previous. The project analysis believes that the recent increase in confirmed cases and deaths is related to the effect of the holidays. The accumulation of relevant data during Thanksgiving is successively reported and summarized from various places.
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, recently stated that increased Thanksgiving gatherings will further worsen the epidemic, and the new wave of cases may be 2-3 after the holidays. Zhou appeared.
The rapid spread of the epidemic has put unprecedented pressure on America’s medical systems, with hospital beds, intensive care units, and medical staff operating at full capacity in many hospitals. To curb the increase in cases and avoid paralysis of the medical system, some regions have announced new “home orders” and stricter epidemic prevention measures.
California is one of the areas hardest hit by the new corona epidemic in the United States. The state is scheduled to implement “house order” in some areas at 11:59 p.m. local time on the 6th. Governor Gavin Newsom announced a few days ago that in the five major epidemic prevention areas outlined by California, if the Intensive care bed vacancy rate in a given regional hospital falls below 15%, the area will implement a “house order” for at least three weeks.
Since the epidemic, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in California has exceeded 1.31 million. The California Department of Public Health issued a statement on the 5th that if the epidemic continues to spread at its current rate, it will quickly overwhelm California’s medical system and have disastrous consequences.
Statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States show that as of the afternoon of fifth time Eastern, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 14.58 million.
