The United States has surpassed 370,000 coronavirus deaths, with more than 24,000 Americans dying from COVID-19 in the first nine days of 2021.
A total of 370,119 people have died since the start of the pandemic in the United States after 1,346 new deaths were reported as of Saturday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Another 115,409 new infections have also been registered across the country so far, reaching 21,978,182 nationally.
The latest figures are a worrying sign of post-holiday growth as. As of January 1, 24,260 deaths and 2,003,618 new cases have been reported.
This week alone, 16 states reported the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations, and California experienced the deadliest day.
The state reported a record 695 deaths on Saturday, a day after Los Angeles reported the highest daily figure of 318 deaths.
This week, 16 states reported the highest number of COVID-19 hospitalizations. In the image, the patients are pushed into the emergency room of the LAC USC hospital
There have been more than 52,000 new infections in California since Saturday afternoon, according to the health department.
State hospitals continue to face an increase in patients with the virus, and doctors fear that the worst period after the holidays will still come.
“It takes two to three weeks for patients to get sick enough to need hospital after they get the virus, and Christmas was only two weeks ago and we’re already full,” said Dr. Anish Mahajan, chief medical officer at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center told CNN.
There were again records set on Friday for an average of seven days for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the US, with deaths rising to an average of 2,934.
Of the 310,080 new cases reported Friday, 50,000 were in California and 20,000 in New Jersey, according to the publication COVID follow-up project.
Friday’s rise in cases means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people.
New Jersey had another increase 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.