The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States has risen to more than 350,000 as early as Sunday, as experts say there has been a further increase in cases and casualties as the Christmas and New Year holidays come together.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed that the U.S. passed the threshold early Sunday morning. More than 20 million people in the country have been infected.
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The United States has begun using two coronavirus vaccines to protect health care workers and people over the age of 800, but the rollout of the inoculation program has been criticized for being slow and chaotic.
Officials under the federal government’s War Operations and Speed Act have set a target of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. But as of Saturday night, about 4.3 million people had been vaccinated in the U.S., according to Bloomberg News. 1.3% of the population.
Vaccine doses are not widely used. According to Bloomberg calculations, about 13.1 million doses of the two-dose vaccine produced by Pfizer and Moderna are available in the U.S. Was distributed in.
Record numbers of cases have been reported in multiple states in the past few days, including North Carolina and Arizona. Mortuary owners in hard-hit Southern California say they are overflowing with corpses.
In addition, three states – Florida, Colorado and California – have reported cases of the new COVID-19 variant for the first time in the United Kingdom. The strain is believed to be more contagious and prompt travel bans and more restrictions in Britain.
U.S. The highest number of deaths in the world so far has been recorded in Covid-1, followed by Brazil, where more than 1,195,000 deaths have been reported.
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Accounts for more than 350,000 deaths, U.S. About .1% of the total population of 3030 million have died from complications associated with Covid-19.
President Trump, however, reacted by saying that the number of coronaviruses was “extremely exaggerated” as he called on the U.S. on Sunday morning for a “ridiculous method” of disease control and prevention. Criticized the centers. To tweet.
Influenza, meanwhile, has been hospitalized with 140,000-810,000 patients since 2010 and between 12,000-61,000 annually, according to CDC estimates. Between the years 2019 and 2020, the U.S. About 22,000 people died after contracting influenza in, and about 400,000 people were hospitalized with the disease.
Fox News’ Sally Pipes and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
