The United States reached 1,283,829 confirmed cases of COVID-19 this Friday and 77,178 deaths, according to an independent count by John Hopkins University.
This balance at 20:00 local time is 29,089 more infections than 24 hours ago and 1,635 new deaths.
At least 199,993 people have overcome the disease, so that slightly more than a million cases remain active.
New York State remains the great epicenter of the pandemic in the United States with 330,407 confirmed cases and 26,243 deaths. In New York City alone, 19,702 people have died.
New York is followed by neighboring New Jersey with 135,840 confirmed cases and 8,960 deaths, Massachusetts with 75,333 coronavirus positives and 4,702 deaths, and the state of Illinois, which has reported 73,760 infections and 3,241 deaths.
Other states with a large number of deaths are Michigan with 4,399, Pennsylvania with 3,715 and Connecticut with 2,874.
The provisional balance of deaths -77,126- remains below the initial estimates of the White House, which projected at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths; but it has already surpassed the most optimistic calculations made “a posteriori” by the president, Donald Trump, of between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths.
Since then, however, Trump has increased his forecast on several occasions until acknowledging this Friday that the figure will probably be between 100,000 and 110,000.
The Institute of Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) at the University of Washington, whose predictive models for the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that by the beginning of August the crisis will have left more than 134,000 deaths in United States.
Although the president has defended leaving behind the strictest measures of confinement, the pandemic has reached the White House in the last 24 hours with two confirmed positives.
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