The United States is in the midst of one of the sharpest outbreaks of coronavirus to date, with more new cases reported nationwide on Friday than on any other day since the outbreak began.
October Since the beginning of October, the increase in cases has been stable and inadvisable, with no plateau in sight. As of Friday evening, more than 6,000,000 cases had been reported across the country, breaking the one-day record on July 16 with more than 6,000 cases reported.
With the move, Friday’s epidemic was the worst day, and health experts warned that more outbreaks would occur as soon as the cold weather begins. The number of hospital admissions for Covid-19 has already risen by 40 per cent in the past month. Deaths have been relatively flat but frequent knocks are indicative.
Recent outbreaks tracked by The New York Times using state and local health department reports have spread across the country, to states like Illinois and Rhode Island, which are experiencing second-rate, and places like Montana and South Dakota, which are still the case. Are enduring the first flood.
Thirteen states have added more newly confirmed coronavirus cases in the past week than the second stretch of seven days. As of Friday, six states had set or set weekly records for new deaths. Wednesday was the worst day of the epidemic in Wisconsin, with a total of 47 deaths pronounced.
The geography of the epidemic has changed steadily since the coronavirus arrived in the United States last winter. The erupting spring hit the northeast, the summer sun belt and now the states of the Midwest and West, with 10 recent cases per capita in the country.
Dr. Tom, director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Public Health Center for Health Security. “It’s an increase after a week, an increase after an increase,” said Tom Inglesby. “Nothing has been added to the mix that will slow things down.”
For many, the number increased in mid-July, when the virus was spreading through the Sun Belt.
Raymond saw Embry close to his worst. His small Arizona medical clinic gave as many as five coronavirus tests a day. It grew to dozens a day, and then on July 16 4,192 people lined up for testing, to find out if they had coronavirus.
That day, the worst outbreak of the disease in the United States, set a nationwide record. By the end of that 24-hour period, a staggering 75,687 new cases had been reported nationwide, and Arizona led the country in per capita deaths.
“It was overwhelming to try to find gloves and masks,” said Embry, referring to the lack of personal protective equipment needed for the safety of health care providers. Widely available and just wrong. “Test.
On the Texas-Mexico border, in mid-July was a nightmare. The owner of the Salinas Funeral Home, Johnny Salinas Jr., was handling six to seven funerals a day, the disease of which he would normally see a week before the epidemic. Some of them include family members and relatives of employees.
Local health officials said they have managed to control the spread of the virus during the spring through Tu, until Texas lifted restrictions on social distance just before Memorial Day. Then the numbers skyrocketed. In July, Hidalgo County, where Mr. Salinas lives, had one of the highest per capita mortality rates in the state. He grabbed Mr. Salinas by the guard.
“We don’t know what to expect,” Mr. Salinas said. “We didn’t know much about the virus. Many people were killed after that. “
These days, he is stocking masks, gloves and hand sanitizer, closing each other’s pews in the chapels to maintain social distance and installing a Plexiglass barrier to keep mourners in the shawl.
“Right now we’re back to normal numbers,” Mr Salinas said. “But I’m nervous. People are a little more relaxed. I believe the second wave will come and it will be more terrible than the first. “
By the summer the virus had already entered deeply deep politics, and in this regard, the headlines made on 16 July were not surprising.
That day, President Trump hosted an event on the White House’s South Lawn, featuring pickup trucks, highlighting his efforts to bring back government regulations.
While Georgia was experiencing the worst week of the epidemic at the time, Republican Gov. Brian Kempe sued Democrats over Atlanta’s mayor. Republican Party officials told delegates in a letter sent that day that they were re-launching plans for the convention in Florida, which at the time was filing more than 10,000 new cases a day (the convention will eventually move out of Florida).
At a July 16 news conference, some Republican governors were stubbornly optimistic in places that were suffering the worst of the epidemic, while some Democratic governors spoke with concern about the state of the outbreak, unaware that their states would be far away. . Bad.
“What we’re seeing across the country is worrying,” said Andy Bachere, a Democrat from Kentucky, at a July 16 convention in a day when 469 new cases were reported in the state. On Tuesday, 1,288 newly confirmed infections were reported in Kentucky, nearly three times the number of days since the governor’s speech.
But in some other parts of the country that day, the virus felt far away.
On July 16, the towns of North Dakota were hosting their annual summer festivities. People cheered the rodeos and danced masculine together in the streets.
Erin Ronda, administrator of Custer Health, a public health department west of Bistermack, saw all this through foreboding.
“I don’t think the reality has affected much of North Dakota,” Ms. Said the room. It was also hard to think back to that summer period, she said this week, when “everyone was still living their lives and getting ready for the next street dance that they were going through.”
As the nation reached a record on Friday, experts expressed concern about what the coming weeks might bring.
Testing has become more available in recent months, and conducting more tests can often highlight cases that would otherwise not be noticed. But experts said the surge in cases as a result of more cases now cannot be easily explained. Despite an increase in cases of the virus, about 775 deaths a day remain relatively flat.
Yet this week in North Dakota, hospitals are struggling to find available beds. The state now has the worst rate of infection in the country, in proportion to its population, and it is bringing a formal formal end to contact except in health care settings, schools and colleges. Members of the National Guard are calling on people to say they have tested positive.
He saw this when the number of cases began to steadily rise in late July, Mrs Orda said, “and we’ve been living in it ever since.”
Mitch Smith, Amy Harmon And Sarah Merwash Contributed report.
