The United States reached 33,305,531 confirmed cases and 595,802 deaths from COVID-19, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 8:00 p.m. local time (Wednesday) was 597 more deaths than on Tuesday and 19,402 new infections.
California is now the worst-hit state by the pandemic with 63,282 deaths, followed by New York (53,338), Texas (51,575), Florida (36,924), Pennsylvania (27,259), New Jersey (26,247) and Illinois (25,241).
Other states with large numbers of deaths are Georgia (20,867), Michigan (20,423), Ohio (19,923), Massachusetts (17,886) and Arizona (17,648).
In terms of infections, California has 3,791,331, followed by Texas with 2,956,576, third is Florida with 2,327,989 and New York is fourth with 2,103,269.
The provisional death toll -595,802- far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which projected in the best of cases between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.
US President Joe Biden has predicted that a total of more than 600,000 people in the country will die from the virus.
Regarding vaccines, some 168.7 million people (50.8% of the population) have received at least one dose, of which 136.1 million (41%) are already fully inoculated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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