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US President Donald Trump promised supporters at a rally in Florida on Friday that the coronavirus pandemic would be over soon, even as new data showed the United States had more infections on Friday than any other day in the pandemic through Friday. date.
More than 82,600 new cases were collected on Friday, the Washington Post reported, well ahead of the previous record: 76,533 on July 17.
The new wave is more widespread, affects more states, and hospitalizations are also increasing, with a shortage of necessary drugs.
The July wave was focused on four states: Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, but the last one is nationwide, according to the newspaper.
“We’re starting this wave much higher than any of the previous waves,” said Eleanor J. Murray, an epidemiologist at Boston University.
“It will just keep going up until people and officials decide to do something about it.”
Trump, ignoring the new data, accused Democratic rival Joe Biden of exaggerating the health crisis to scare Americans into voting for him.
The pandemic has killed more than 229,000 people in the United States so far, and a new study suggests that unless drastic measures are taken, 500,000 will have died in February. About 130,000 lives could be saved if everyone wore masks, according to the study.
