About one in five new coronavirus cases reported worldwide came from just three US states, Florida, Texas and California, a new NBC News count revealed Tuesday.
The 27,574 cases registered in those states represented 18.9 percent of the global total and represented more than a third of the 61,751 new cases reported in the United States.
Meanwhile, the total of deaths in two weeks in Texas increased 99 percent in the previous two weeks.
In Florida, the total number of deaths in two weeks increased by almost 84 percent and in California it increased by almost 27 percent.
As of Tuesday morning, there were 3,386,164 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US, and the death toll was 136,472.
The staggering new sums came the same day that Admiral Brett Giroir, undersecretary of health, insisted “Today” that “we are turning the current outbreak around.”
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a press conference on July 6, 2020 in New York City, where he announced that President Donald Trump is allowing the coronavirus pandemic by not wearing a mask and minimizing the problem. . (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP photo) (TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP photo via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 6: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing on July 6, 2020 in New York City. On the 128th day since the first confirmed case in New York and on the first day of Phase 3 of the reopening, Governor Cuomo asked New Yorkers to continue to be smart while citing the rise in infections in other states. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 6: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing on July 6, 2020 in New York City. On the 128th day since the first confirmed case in New York and on the first day of Phase 3 of the reopening, Governor Cuomo asked New Yorkers to continue to be smart while citing the rise in infections in other states. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 6: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing on July 6, 2020 in New York City. On the 128th day since the first confirmed case in New York and on the first day of Phase 3 of the reopening, Governor Cuomo asked New Yorkers to continue to be smart while citing the rise in infections in other states. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 1: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks at a press conference on July 1, 2020 in New York City. The Governor expressed alarm to the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s recent prediction that there could be 100,000 new cases of Covid-19 per day and provided a series of updates related to an increase in states outside of Los State visitors must quarantine for 14 days. (Photo by Byron Smith / Getty Images)
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2020/06/24: Governor Andrew Cuomo makes an announcement and holds a press conference at the 3rd Avenue office. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont joined Cuomo with the announcement of the incoming travel notice that all people traveling from states with significant community spread of COVID-19 quarantine for a period of 14 days from the last contact within the identified state. This quarantine applies to anyone arriving from a state with a positive test rate greater than 10 per 100,000 residents for a 7-day moving average or a state with a positivity rate of 10% or more over a moving average of 7 days. (Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2020/06/24: Governor Andrew Cuomo makes an announcement and holds a press conference at the 3rd Avenue office. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy and Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont joined Cuomo with the announcement of the incoming travel notice that all people traveling from states with significant community spread of the COVID-19 quarantine for a period of 14 days from the last contact within the identified state. This quarantine applies to anyone arriving from a state with a positive test rate greater than 10 per 100,000 residents on a 7-day moving average or a state with a positivity rate of 10% or more on a moving average of 7 days. (Photo by Lev Radin / Pacific Press / LightRocket via Getty Images)
NEW YORK, NY – JULY 6: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during a COVID-19 briefing on July 6, 2020 in New York City. On the 128th day since the first confirmed case in New York and on the first day of Phase 3 of the reopening, Governor Cuomo asked New Yorkers to continue to be smart while citing the rise in infections in other states. (Photo by David Dee Delgado / Getty Images)
BROOKLYN, NY – MAY 28: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo along with comedian / actor Chris Rock and actress Rosie Pérez hold a daily press conference for covid-19 to promote the use of masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus at Madison Square Boys and Girls Club on May 28, 2020 in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Mpi43 / MediaPunch / IPX
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gets out of his car when it hits the New York Stock Exchange to ring the opening bell when the trading floor partially reopens on Tuesday, May 26, 2020. (AP Photo / Mark Lennihan)
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo briefs the media during a coronavirus press conference at his New York City office on Saturday, May 9, 2020. (John Roca / New York Post via AP, Pool)
In this photo provided by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s Office, Governor Cuomo reports to the media at Marist College, Friday, May 8, 2020, in Poughkeepsie, New York. On Friday, the Governor extended the deadline for filing the Child Victims Act until January 2021 allowing extra time, allowing New York residents who were sexually abused as children to sue those responsible. The extended deadline is to compensate for reduced judicial services during the coronavirus pandemic. (Darren McGee / Office of the Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)
In this photo provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, New York Governor Cuomo tests a spraying device that is part of a three-step disinfection process of a New York City subway car in Downtown of Corona Maintenance in the Queens District of New York on Saturday, May 2, 2020. Cuomo announced on Thursday, April 30 that New York City is closing its subway system every day from 1 am to 5 am to increase cleaning of trains and stations during the coronavirus crisis. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)
In this photo provided by the Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, an employee of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, on the left, explains part of a three-step disinfecting process of a New York City subway car to the Governor of New York Andrew M. Cuomo at the Corona Maintenance Facility in the Queens borough of New York on Saturday, May 2, 2020. Governor Cuomo announced on Thursday, April 30 that New York City will close its subway system. every day from 1 am to 5 am to increase the cleanliness of trains and stations during the coronavirus crisis. (Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of the Governor Andrew M. Cuomo via AP)
SYRACUSE, NY – APRIL 28: New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks during his daily press conference on Coronavirus at SUNY Upstate Medical University on April 28, 2020 in Syracuse, New York. Cuomo detailed guidelines for reopening parts of New York state around May 15, 2020. (Photo by Stefani Reynolds / Getty Images)
ALBANY, NY – APRIL 17: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo gives a press conference on the coronavirus crisis on April 17, 2020 in Albany, New York. Cuomo along with the governors of other east coast states are extending their non-essential business closings to May 15. “We have to keep doing what we are doing. I would like to see the infection rate drop further … “he said. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh / Getty Images)
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“We are all very concerned about the outbreak,” said Giroir. “About half of the cases are in four states, Texas, California, Florida and Arizona. But we are in a very different place now than several months ago, a much better place. “
Perhaps. But 41 states have seen an increase in cases in the past two weeks and eight states have seen an increase of more than 100 percent in the past 14 days, according to the NBC News Medical Unit.
And when Vice President Mike Pence arrived in Louisiana on Tuesday to meet with local officials about the pandemic, Attorney General Mike Landry was not there to greet him on the runway because he tested positive, local media reported.
“Due to over-caution with the Vice President’s arrival in our state, I was tested for Cornavirus,” Landry wrote in an email to employees. “Although I had no symptoms, I had positive results for COVID-19.”
There was also a pinch of troubling news from New York, a state that published Texas-sized case numbers in April and has since managed to crush the coronavirus curve.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo reported that 1.5 percent of the 60,045 COVID-19 tests conducted Monday returned positive results. That’s the highest positive rate in the state since June 5.
Cuomo also reported five other coronavirus deaths on Monday.
Two days earlier, the New York State Department of Health reported that there were zero deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, the first time it happened since March 13.
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