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The United States has once again reached a sad milestone in the corona pandemic: A quarter of a million people have already succumbed to the virus there. The number of new infections is increasing faster and faster.
The number of deaths from coronavirus infection in the United States has risen to its highest level since the beginning of May. On Wednesday, authorities reported 1,848 deaths in 24 hours, according to data from Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore on Thursday morning (CET).
The number of new confirmed infections also rose further to 170,161 cases. On the same day the previous week, around 143,000 new cases were registered. The highest value to date was recorded on Friday when more than 177,000 new infections were reported.
“Danger point” in the pandemic
The United States is at a “dangerous point” in the pandemic, said Admiral Brett Giroir, who is a member of the Corona task force at the White House, broadcaster MSNBC. “Right now we are seeing the largest increase in the number of cases, our hospital admissions are increasing by 25 percent week over week, our deaths are increasing by 25 percent week over week, and that is not moving in the right direction. “.
The health official emphasized that this is not false scaremongering. The rate of increase in corona cases was not so bad at any other point in the pandemic. New corona infections per day are at a very high level in the US More than 100,000 new infections have been reported every day since early November.
Doctors in protective uniforms in the US: The country has set a sad new record. (Source: John Hart / Wisconsin State Journal via AP / File Image)
According to the JHU, it was not until Wednesday that the United States surpassed the quarter of a million deaths. Since the start of the pandemic, 250,537 people have died from the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen, more than in any other country in the world. Most of the deaths were in the states of New York, Texas and California. In total, more than 11.5 million people have been infected by the corona virus in the country of around 330 million inhabitants.
Criticism of Donald Trump’s management of the crown crisis
The JHU website is regularly updated and therefore generally shows a higher level than the official figures from the US health authority CDC. In some cases, the university figures were later corrected. The CDC said the death toll on Wednesday night (local time) was around 248,000. The Sars-CoV-2 pathogen can trigger Covid-19 disease, which can be life-threatening, especially in the elderly or immunosuppressed.
Critics accuse current President of the United States, Donald Trump, of gross negligence in the pandemic. More recently, Trump commented on the progress made in vaccine development, but not on the dramatic increase in the number of cases. President-elect Joe Biden called for immediate action by the Trump administration. He wants to make fighting the pandemic a priority once he moves into the White House. The inauguration is scheduled for January 20.
