Covid 19 coronavirus: US virus deaths exceed 3,100 in a single day for the first time

The United States recorded more than 3,100 deaths from Covid-19 in a single day, erasing the record set last spring, while the number of Americans hospitalized with the virus has dwarfed 100,000 for the first time and new cases have started to exceed those. 200,000 per day, according to the new figures.

The three benchmarks together showed a country sinking deeper into crisis, with perhaps the worst yet to come, in part due to the late effects of Thanksgiving, when warnings were ignored by millions of Americans. to stay home and celebrate only with members of your household.

Across the United States, the surge has flooded hospitals and left nurses and other healthcare workers short-staffed and burned.

“The reality is that December, January and February are going to be tough times. In fact, I think they will be the most difficult times in the history of public health in this nation,” said Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control. and Prevention said Wednesday.

Health authorities had warned that the numbers could fluctuate sharply before and after Thanksgiving, as often occurs on holidays and weekends, when due to reporting delays, the numbers often drop and then rise dramatically. a few days later when state and local agencies catch up on the reservation.

Still, deaths, hospitalizations, and cases in the US have risen fairly steadily for weeks, sometimes breaking records for days and days.

Nationwide, the coronavirus is blamed for more than 270,000 deaths and about 14 million confirmed infections.

The United States recorded 3,157 deaths on Wednesday, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally. That’s more than the number of people killed on September 11, and it broke the old mark of 2,603, set on April 15, when the New York metropolitan area was the epicenter of the outbreak in the United States.

The number of people in the hospital also set an all-time high on Wednesday, according to the Covid Tracking Project. It has more than doubled in the last month.

Additionally, the number of newly confirmed infections rose just over 200,000 on Wednesday for the second time in less than a week, according to the Johns Hopkins tally.

– AP