The United States reached 26,302,014 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 443,060 deaths from the covid-19 disease on Monday, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
The balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Tuesday) is 1,758 more deaths than on Sunday and 121,603 new infections.
New York State remains the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 43,805 deaths, followed by California (41,159), Texas (37,245), Florida (26,685), Pennsylvania (21,651), New Jersey (21,513) and Illinois (21,253) ).
Other states with large death toll are Michigan (15,536), Massachusetts (14,607), Georgia (14,242), and Arizona (13,124).
In terms of infections, California has 3,332,838, followed by Texas with 2,408,824, third is Florida with 1,727,107, New York is fourth with 1,428,839 and Illinois is fifth with 1,126,301.
The provisional death toll -443,060- far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which in the best of cases projected between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic.
The new president of the United States, Joe Biden, has predicted that in February there will be more than half a million deaths and that in total more than 600,000 will die.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that by May 1 some will have died. 595,000.
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