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(FILES) In this file photo taken on Oct. 8, 2020, a medical worker takes a sample from a student’s nasal swab for COVID-19 testing at Brooklyn Health Medical’s urgent care pop-up testing site. Alliance as infection rates rise in New York City. The United States surpassed the nine million reported coronavirus cases on October 30, 2020, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University, as infections surge days before the nation elects its next president.
The country, which has seen a resurgence of its Covid-19 outbreak since mid-October, has now recorded 9,007,298 cases, according to a real-time tally by the Baltimore-based school. (Photo by Angela Weiss / AFP)
WASHINGTON – The United States set a third consecutive daily record for new Covid-19 infections, recording more than 127,000 cases, John Hopkins University reported Friday.
And the death toll at 8:30 pm (0130 GMT) over the past 24 hours was 1,149, the Baltimore-based university said.
The outbreak has been increasing for weeks across the country, with the Midwest hit the hardest even as the number of new diagnoses approached spring levels in the South, Northeast and West.
While deaths are still much lower than the peak in the spring, Friday was also the fourth day in a row that deaths exceeded 1,000. The last time people died of Covid-19 at that rate in the US was in early September.
As of Friday night, the US, the worst affected country in the world in terms of deaths and total cases, had more than 236,000 coronavirus-related deaths and 9.7 million known infections.
Cases are expected to increase as the country moves toward a colder climate and people shift to socializing primarily indoors, ideal conditions for transmitting the virus from person to person.
Cooler, drier weather could also play a role in creating favorable conditions for the virus to stay in the air and on surfaces.
Reasons why deaths have declined from their peak include the fact that since cases are more geographically dispersed than they were at the start of the US epidemic, hospitals are better able to do so. versus the load of cases.
Doctors have also learned how to best treat severe cases of Covid-19: placing patients on their stomachs, avoiding the use of ventilators when possible and using them in low-pressure settings if necessary, and, perhaps most importantly, using steroids. . such as dexamethasone to suppress a destructive autoimmune response known as a cytokine storm.
Since a higher proportion of infected people are younger, they are also less likely to develop severe forms of the disease.
Two vaccine manufacturers, Moderna and Pfizer, say they may be ready to apply for emergency use authorizations by the end of the month.
But if vaccines are available, they are only expected to be moderately effective, which means that people will need to continue to adhere to masking, social distancing and hand hygiene to end the pandemic.
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