The United States on Friday broke a record for the largest new cases of COVID-19 in a single day, as California and New Jersey saw a massive one-day increase.
In accordance with COVID follow-up project, 310,080 new cases were reported on Friday, of which 50,000 in California and 20,000 in New Jersey.
This is because 23,083 deaths have already been reported with COVID-19 in the first eight days of the year and 16 states have reported the highest number of hospitalizations with COVID-19 this week, in even more worrying signs for post-holiday growth.
There were again records set for an average of seven days for cases, hospitalizations and deaths, with deaths rising to an average of 2,934.
This week, 16 states reported the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. In the picture, patients are being pushed into the emergency room at LAC USC Hospital
Friday’s increase in cases now means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people, according to the COVID follow-up project, illustrated above.
23,083 deaths have already been recorded by COVID-19 in the first eight days of the year, as shown in the monthly chart on the far right of the COVID Monitoring Project.
Data from the COVID follow-up project showed that another 3,774 Americans died from COVID-19 on Friday, while national hospitalizations are currently at 131,889.
Friday’s increase in cases now means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people.
The state most affected by the pandemic is New Jersey, which had another peak on Friday and recorded 2,694 infections per million population.
It is followed by Kansas with 1,889 cases per million people and Arizona with 1,602 infections per million people.
Arizona has also outpaced the summer increase in hospitalizations, with patients growing at an alarming rate.
On Wednesday, health experts called Arizona the new global hot spot for the coronavirus, as the state outbreak took another wrong turn in Arizona.
The state now leads the nation with the highest COVID-19 diagnostic rate.
As of Dec. 31, one in 111 Arizonans has been diagnosed with the virus.
The rise in new cases came on Friday, while Dr Deborah Birx warned that the US could have its own mutant strain of COVID-19 origin, just like in the UK, because the virus is spreading so fast.
The United States broke a record for the largest new cases of COVID-19 in a single day on Friday, while California and New Jersey saw a massive one-day increase in the second image on the left
Sixteen states had the highest number of hospitalizations this week
Hospitalizations are growing at an alarming rate in Arizona and California in particular
Birx, who announced before Christmas that he will retire when Joe Biden takes office after being left with a red face for ignoring COVID guidelines over the holidays, made the analysis during a recent coronavirus working group meeting. at the White House.
She presented a series of graphs and diagrams, officials said, which showed a serious increase in cases.
Birx speculated that this could be due to the fact that a new, more infectious variant of the virus is circulating – in the same way that Britain was shaken by the new strain B.1.1.7.
Her concerns referred to the weekly report sent to state governors, which was released on Friday.
“This autumn / winter increase was almost twice as high as the case growth rate than the spring and summer increases,” the report said.
“This acceleration suggests that there may be a US version that has evolved here, in addition to the British version that is already spreading in our communities and may be 50% more transmissible.
“Aggressive mitigation must be used to suit a more aggressive virus.”
Nationally, there have been more than 21.8 million Americans infected with coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic and 368,679 deaths.