U.S This Wednesday, December 30, 2020, 19,715,899 confirmed cases arrived 341 845 deceased by covid-19, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 20:00 local time (01:00 GMT on Thursday) is 3,927 deaths more than on Tuesday and 189 671 new infections.
The state of NY continues to be the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 37 868 dead, followed by Texas (27 895), California (25 357), Florida (21 550) and New Jersey (19 109).
Other states with a large death toll include Illinois (17 811), Pennsylvania (15 780), Michigan (13 018), Massachusetts (12 338) and Georgia (10 846).
As for contagions, California adds 2 267 290, follows Texas with 1 759 036, third is Florida with 1 306 123, NY is fourth with 998 524 e Illinois fifth with 955 380.
The provisional balance of deceased -341 845- far exceeds the lower bound of the initial estimates of the White House, which projected at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from pandemic.
The American President, Donald Trump, lowered these estimates and was confident that the final figure would be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although later he predicted up to 110,000 dead, a number that has also been exceeded.
For its part, the Institute of Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic often set the White House, estimates that when Trump leaves power on January 20, 420,000 people will have died and by April 1, 560,000.
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