By dropping below the bar of 500 daily deaths (with 450 deaths) from the coronavirus, the United States, which entered into recession after 11 years of growth, are returning to the situation they had known at the end of March.
The peak of 3,000 daily deaths was crossed in mid-April. And for two weeks, the daily reports are regularly located on a kind of plateau around 1,000 dead.
This is why the latest good figures provided by Johns Hopkins University deserve to be confirmed in the coming days. In fact, university data, which is continuously updated, has a tendency to automatically drop at the end of the weekend depending on the feedback received from the local health authorities.
Several elements are still worrying. The total number of deaths linked to Covid-19 in the country is 110,900 and more than 1,955,000 cases have been recorded in the country. However, the country continues to record around 20,000 new cases of coronavirus each day and is struggling to curb this curve of new infections.
According to an average of nine epidemiological models carried out by researchers at the University of Massachusetts, the number of deaths from Covid-19 is expected to approach 127,000 deaths in the country by June 27.
The heart of the epidemic has shifted
In fact, since the start of the epidemic in the country, his heart has tended to move. “We did not act fast and strong enough to prevent the virus from spreading initially, and it apparently moved from the initial foci to other urban and rural areas,” said Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers. of Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
According to his analysis, the five northeastern states, from New Jersey to Massachusetts with New York in the middle where half of American deaths from Covid-19 have been recorded, have been more careful in deconfinement.
