The United States will see 20 million cases of Covid-19 by Christmas, if the coronavirus infects people at current rates, according to the latest figures released by NBC News on Tuesday.
In the three weeks ending Monday, the number of new cases nearly doubled to 1.9 million from 1.07 million in the previous 21 days.
By November 30, if this trend continues, the U.S. But there could be 13.6 million cases and by December 21, at current rates that number could reach 19.9 million.
Epidemic fatigue and the growing anger over wearing masks and the practice of social distance, with people driving cold weather indoors, where the virus spreads more easily, have created a “complete hurricane” for new infections, epidemiologist Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said Tuesday.
Osterholm, who is also on President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 task force, told MSNBC’s “Morning Just” that he was not surprised that the number was approaching 150,000 at the moment. “And that’s what I’ve been saying for months – get ready, we’ll handle 200,000 or more cases a day. And for the same issue we have to be prepared in our hospitals. ”
While Pfizer vaccine of Kovid-1 for the country’s top infectious disease specialist Dr. Anthony Fawcett called it “extraordinary” and said it would not be rolled out until the end of December.
Until then, Ter Sterholm warned, U.S. “The darkest weeks of this epidemic for us.”
In other coronavirus news:
- Efforts to launch a new epidemic plan for Biden’s move have stalled as President Donald Trump refuses to accept the election. As a result, Biden’s transition team has been prevented from meeting with officials leading Operation Operation Worm Speed and other Trump administration coronavirus efforts.
- Faukey told Andrea Mitchell of MSNBC that once the Federal Food and Drug Administration signed the Pfizer vaccine, she would be ready to take it. “If they look at this data and they say this data is solid, let’s go ahead and approve it, I promise you, Andrea, I’ll get vaccinated and I’ll recommend my family get vaccinated,” he said.
- In a report in The Miami Herald, Florida Governor Ron Disantis, who has accused Trump of mitigating epidemic risks, has hired a Berber driver / Ohio sports blogger to spread the distortion of the Covid-19 as a data analyst. Kyle Lamb, who has called critics a “crackpot”, said he would work on coronavirus “research and other projects”. “
- Dr. Luciana Borrio, one of the doctors named in Biden’s new Covid-19 Task Force, served on Trump’s National Security Council as a member of his epidemic response team until Trump disbanded it in 2018.
- In a yet stern message on the subject, the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the face mask protects both wearers and others from the spread of Covid-19.
- Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas raised the question of wearing a face mask during a hearing that could determine Obamacare’s fate.
- Saeb Erekt, a longtime Palestinian politician and peace negotiator, died weeks after he was admitted to a Jerusalem hospital for Covid-19. He was 65 years old and had been serving for decades as a senior Palestinian negotiator in negotiations with Israel.
- The University of Albany closed all individual classes on Tuesday due to a recent campus spike in a coronavirus case. Even before the pause in the live lectures on Tuesday, more than 83 per cent of the instructions were taken online on the campus of 3,000 students, a school spokesperson said.
- Pittsburgh Steelers star quarterback Ben Rothlisberger and three other players have been in isolation for five days as they were in contact with a teammate who tested positive on Monday. All will be checked during the week to see if they can still play Sunday.
- Covid-19 not only decides to mink in Denmark, it is also killing them on fur farms in Wisconsin and Utah.
On Monday, the U.S. set a second daily record for new coronavirus cases with 133,819, data show. For the first time, the number of Covid-19 cases crossed the 130,000 threshold and for the sixth day in a row, the USA recorded more than 100,000 cases in a single day.
Wisconsin reported 7,073 new cases Tuesday and 66 deaths overnight, a disappointing new record for both states. Ohio also set a new daily record Monday with 6,508 new cases. Michigan did the same on Tuesday with 6,473 new cases.
New Covid-119 infections have increased in nursing homes after a seven-week decline, especially in the Midwest, where deaths are on the rise, according to the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living. On tuesday.
Currently, NBC News figures show that U.S. Coronavirus leads the world with 10.2 million confirmed cases and more than 240,000 deaths.
As many as 78,889 deaths were reported on Monday, while the number of deaths due to covid-1 fat did not increase at the same pace, according to the data.
At the onset of the epidemic, the elderly and the unhealthy were the earliest to catch the Covid-1 catch, experts said, adding that the average age of the person catching the virus has decreased. Furthermore, more aggressive testing is catching the infection sooner, and treatment has become better.
A “Best Case” scenario was released in September by the Trump administration, a research group at the University of Washington School of Medicine and School of Medicine – a research group that estimates there will be 257,286 to 327,775 COVD-19s. By January 1, U.S. Casualties in.
At the time, the potential Covid-19 vaccine announced by drug company Pfizer on Monday was expected to be eliminated.
“I’m clearly very pleased that we have, now, evidence that this vaccine approach can work,” Osterholm said.
But Sterholm warns that there are still a number of unanswered questions, such as “How long will this vaccine last?”
Just Mur Murphy Contributed.
