The United States reached 1,000 coronavirus deaths for the second consecutive day amid a continuous increase in COVID-19 cases across the country.
The Johns Hopkins University data panel reported 1,195 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States on Wednesday, the second consecutive day with more than 1,000 deaths. Meanwhile, the Covid Tracking Project showed that nearly 60,000 people are hospitalized with the virus across the country, marking a continuous increase since late June.
Hospitalizations are only around 200 below the peak since April.
Statistics come when multiple states see alarming increases in coronavirus cases after initially flattening the infection rate earlier this year.
States like Florida, Texas, Arizona and California have seen the sharpest peaks, although several other states are dealing with high rates of positive tests.
“Right now, we have about 1,000 victims a day, so if we don’t change that trajectory, it could do the math and see where we are by the end of the year,” said former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb. . Wednesday.
According to Johns Hopkins data, more than 143,000 people in the US have died from the coronavirus, the most in total reported by any country in the world.
Overall, the United States reports 43.30 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the data, which would be the 10th highest reported death rate in the world. It means the US has a higher death rate than countries like Canada, Ireland, and Switzerland, but a lower death rate than the UK, Spain, and Italy.
However, of the countries currently most affected by the coronavirus, the US has the third highest death rate behind the UK and Chile, according to data from John Hopkins.
The nationwide death rate for positive tests stands at about 3.6 percent, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week that the actual number of cases in the US could be as high as 10 times greater than the official number.
President Trump
Donald John TrumpTrump says he would feel comfortable sending his son and grandchildren to school in person. Cafeteria worker on White House grounds tests positive for COVID-19: Reports Republicans will begin revealing the coronavirus package Thursday MORE, after initially ruling out the severity of the virus, acknowledged Tuesday that the pandemic is likely to “get worse before it gets better” and encouraged all Americans to wear masks in public. Several governors have also issued mask mandates to try to mitigate the spread of the disease.
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