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In the US, Covid-19 Case Registry, with 99 new infections every minute. The figures are the most alarming since the start of the pandemic, with more than 100,000 patients in intensive care (double than a month ago), Only yesterday there were 196,000 new infections, the highest in history, and 2,733 deaths in the last 24 hours throughout the country. The cases in the United States are almost 14 million, with 264 thousand deaths, ed. the peak of the first wave was also passed: And if November is the blackest month yet, thanks also to Thanksgiving trips, hospitals seem destined to reach maximum crowding between December, January and February, which will be the most difficult time in the history of our public health.. So is Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US local medicine network.
The most affected states
The worst affected states are the three most populous, California, Texas and Florida: In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered residents to stay indoors, and similar measures are also being implemented in Los Angeles County. The Californian metropolis is currently the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States, with about 6,000 cases per day (as of Tuesday) and hospitals near their maximum capacity.
Waiting for the vaccine
Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration waits on December 10 to grant the emergency authorization requested by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer for the anti-Covid vaccine: if, as is likely, there will be a green light, the first doses are expected in New York on December 15. and 50 million vials will be available, according to priority ranges, by the end of the year. Health workers first. Then those of the essential sectors and the residents of the most affected neighborhoods.
December 3, 2020 (change December 3, 2020 | 13:48)
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