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The death toll from Covid-19 in the US surpassed 350,000 in the early hours of Sunday, as experts anticipated another spike in cases and deaths stemming from holiday gatherings over Christmas and the New Year.
Data from Johns Hopkins University showed the US surpassed 350,000 deaths on Sunday morning. More than 20 million have been infected. According to the Covid Tracking Project, 123,614 people were hospitalized on Saturday.
The US federal government has begun distributing and using two coronavirus vaccines to protect healthcare workers and nursing home residents and staff. But the show has been criticized for being slow and chaotic.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it had administered 4,225,756 first doses of vaccines made by Moderna and Pfizer / BioNTech as of Saturday morning, of the 13,071,925 distributed.
Sunday morning Donald Trump reclaimed Without offering any evidence, the vaccines were “being delivered to the states by the federal government much faster than they can be administered.” The president also claimed, without evidence and using a racist term for the coronavirus, that the US case and death counts were “greatly exaggerated” because the CDC used a “ridiculous method of determination,” following the mantra “In When in doubt, call it Covid. “
Trump remained a refugee in the White House, 18 days before Joe Biden succeeded him in office, whose overwhelming victory in the presidential election Trump rejects recognition. The president also said that other countries report Covid statistics “on purpose, very inaccurately and low.”
The United States has reported by far the highest number of Covid-19 deaths in the world, Brazil, which has reported more than 195,000 deaths, is second.
Top public health officials, including National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, and Director of Vaccine Development Moncef Slaoui, were required to participate in morning political talk shows. They seemed confident in dealing with sharp questions.
Several states reported a record number of cases in the New Year period, including North Carolina and Arizona. Mortuary owners in hard-hit Southern California said they were being inundated with corpses.
In Louisiana, on Saturday, Republican Congressman-elect Luke Letlow, 41, was recalled who died from Covid-19. Governor John Bel Edwards ordered flags to be flown at half mast.
Meanwhile, Arizona Governor Doug Ducey rejected a call from a senior education official to order public schools to use only online instruction for the next two weeks unless they have waivers from health officials.
Amid a surge in the coronavirus, Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman said schools needed a two-week “quarantine period” while educators and local officials review health data and decide what kind of instruction. it is appropriate for their communities. A spokesman for the governor said Ducey would not issue the order because opening the schools was a local decision.
On Saturday, Arizona reported nearly 8,900 additional Covid-19 cases and 46 deaths. Many schools are scheduled to resume classes next week, after winter break.
North Carolina reported its highest daily number of cases so far, with 9,527 confirmed on New Year’s Day, topping the previous high by more than 1,000. It reported 9,356 cases on Saturday.
“We begin 2021 in our most dangerous position in this pandemic,” said Dr. Mandy Cohen, state health secretary.
North Carolina has reported a total of more than 558,000 cases. On Saturday, 15.5% of tests came back positive, the highest rate since the start of the pandemic. Additionally, a record 3,479 people were hospitalized and 783 were in intensive care. With 144 deaths reported, the statewide total came to nearly 6,900.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said his state had recorded more than 1 million confirmed cases, reaching that number, as it reported about 15,000 positive tests on Friday. Experts said the official number of cases represents a very low count, as many people in the New York City area were infected last spring when tests were not available.
New York is the fourth state to report more than 1 million positives, after California, Texas and Florida. New York reported 128 deaths on Friday.
In Los Angeles, hospitals struggling to provide enough oxygen to the sickest patients received some relief Saturday when crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers arrived. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the teams helped some hospitals upgrade oxygen supply systems. Hospitals are also struggling to meet the demand for oxygen tanks for patients to take home.
The southern half of the state has suffered the worst effects, its hospitals were flooded. The makeshift rooms are set up in marquees, stadiums, classrooms and conference rooms.
California started the new year with a record 585 coronavirus deaths in one day. On Saturday, the state health department reported more than 53,341 new cases, bringing the total to 2.3 million. There have been 26,357 confirmed deaths.
Southern California funeral homes are turning away bereaved families because they are running out of room for bodies. The director of the California Funeral Directors Association said the morgues were “flooded.”
A household has an average of 30 cadaver extractions a day, about five times more than usual. The morgue owners call each other to see if anyone can handle the overflow. The answer is always the same: they are full.
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