CORONAVIRUS USA
Washington, Mar 28 (EFE) .- The United States reached this Sunday 30,257,078 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 549,299 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance, at 8:00 p.m. local time (00:00 GMT on Monday), is 486 more deaths than on Saturday and 41,534 new infections.
California is now the nation’s state hardest hit by the pandemic with 58,942 deaths, followed by New York (50,017), Texas (48,093), Florida (33,178), Pennsylvania (24,971), New Jersey (24,389) and Illinois (23,521).
Other states with a large death toll are Georgia (18,926), Ohio (18,525), Massachusetts (17,086), Michigan (17,047), or Arizona (16,918).
In terms of infections, California has 3,659,693, followed by Texas with 2,781,159, third is Florida with 2,044,005, New York is fourth with 1,850,732 and Illinois fifth with 1,237,732.
The provisional death toll, which stands at 549,299, 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.
US President Joe Biden has predicted that a total of more than 600,000 people in the country will die from the virus.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessments (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 July 1, some will have died. 596,000 people.
Regarding vaccines, some 93.6 million people (28.2% of the US population) have received at least one dose, of which 51.5 million (15.5% of the total population of the country) are already fully inoculated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). EFE
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