Florida has become the state with the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases after registering more than 414,000 infections, beating New York, as President Donald Trump boasts of having saved ‘tens of thousands of lives’ by ban people from China earlier this year. .
The Florida Department of Health reported 12,199 new cases on Saturday, bringing the state total from March 1 to 414,511 cases.
Florida surpassed New York State’s 411,200 cases and is now only followed by California with the highest number of cases in the country.
California has reported more than 448,000 cases and 8,429 deaths.
Florida has become the state with the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases after registering more than 414,000 infections, beating New York, as President Donald Trump boasts of having saved ‘tens of thousands of lives’ by ban people from China earlier this year.
The Florida Department of Health reported 12,199 new cases on Saturday, bringing the state total to 414,511 cases. Florida surpassed New York’s 411,200 cases and now only follows California. A health worker prepares to evaluate a passenger for the virus in Miami
Florida also reported 126 new deaths, bringing that total from the start of the pandemic to 5,894 deaths on Saturday. In comparison, New York State has had more than 25,100 deaths.
The Florida Department of Health recorded 892 deaths from COVID-19 in the past week, an average of 127 per day.
The number of hospitalizations on Saturday decreased slightly from the previous day. Health officials reported 9,035 coronavirus hospitalizations in Florida, 2 percent less than Friday.
According to the COVID Monitoring Project, deaths from coronavirus in the US have exceeded 1,000 for the fifth consecutive day.
The reported death toll on Saturday was 1,037 and the virus killed 1,019 Americans on Friday. A total of 1,140 deaths were reported on Thursday, 1,135 on Wednesday and 1,141 on Tuesday.
The growing infections in the United States have been fueled by outbreaks in the south and west, with Arizona, California, Florida and Texas especially affected.
More than 4.1 million people have been infected with the virus and more than 146,000 people have been killed.
Despite these numbers, Trump tweeted Sunday that his ban on travel to China is what helped save tens of thousands of lives.
More than 4.1 million people have been infected with the virus and more than 146,000 people have been killed. Despite these numbers, Trump tweeted Sunday that his ban on travel to China is what helped save tens of thousands of lives.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi said I made a mistake when I banned people infected with China from entering the United States in January,” the president wrote.
“Crazy Nancy Pelosi said I made a mistake when I banned people infected with China from entering the United States in January,” the president wrote.
‘Tens of thousands of lives were saved, while dancing on the streets of Chinatown (SF) in late February. Biden agreed with her, but soon admitted she was right!
Meanwhile, the country’s leading infectious disease expert says life can return to normal by 2021, as long as there is a coronavirus vaccine.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN’s David Axelrod last week that he is very hopeful of receiving millions of doses of an inoculation early next year.
“The timetable he suggested for reaching 2021 well into the year, so I can think of a successful vaccine, if we could vaccinate the overwhelming majority of the population, we could start talking about real normalcy again,” Fauci said Thursday.
“But it is going to be a gradual process.”
Fauci said the vaccine companies promised him that “they would receive doses of tens of millions at the beginning of the year, and even hundreds of millions as we move forward in 2021.”
The growing infections in the US have been fueled by outbreaks in the south and west with Arizona, California, Florida and Texas especially affected
Just a day before that statement, Fauci admitted to the TB Alliance, a nonprofit researching tuberculosis treatments, that it does not see COVID-19 “go away as SARS-1 did.”
“The reason I say that is because it is so efficient in its ability to transmit from human to human that I think we will finally control it,” Fauci said. “I really don’t see us eradicating it.”
Fauci then listed three things that he believes will help the United States control the virus.
“I think with a combination of good public health measures, a degree of herd immunity in the herd, and a good vaccine, I hope and I am cautiously optimistic that we will get,” I think that when all three come together, I think you will get a very good control of this, “he said.
As early as this week, the first possible vaccine in the US will begin testing at the final stage in a study of 30,000 people to see if it really is safe and effective.
“Vaccines are coming, and will come much sooner than anyone thought possible,” Trump said earlier this week.
Some other vaccines have started smaller, late-stage studies in other countries, and in the US A series of large studies is planned to start each month through the fall in hopes of eventually having multiple vaccines to use. Already, people can start volunteering for the different studies.
Health authorities warn that there is no guarantee: It is not unusual for vaccines to fail during this critical testing step.
But vaccine manufacturers and health officials hope that at least one vaccine can work by the end of the year.
Companies are already taking the unusual step of preparing hundreds of millions of doses so that mass vaccines can begin if the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) subscribes.
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