CORONAVIRUS USA
Washington, Jan 2 (EFE) .- The United States this Saturday reached 20,381,349 confirmed cases and 349,920 deaths from covid-19, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Sunday) is 2,237 more deaths than on Friday and 277,346 new infections.
On Friday, the disastrous milestone of 20 million cases was reached, which implies that the number of infections in the United States has doubled in less than two months, since 10 million cases were reached on November 9.
This data illustrates the seriousness of the outbreak in the United States, which in December registered several daily records in the number of deaths from covid-19 and closed 2020 with a historical maximum of more than 125,000 hospitalized by the disease.
New York State remains the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 38,243 deaths, followed by Texas (28,597), California (26,394), Florida (21,890) and New Jersey (19,329).
Other states with large death toll include Illinois (18,208), Pennsylvania (16,307), Michigan (13,306), Massachusetts (12,502), and Georgia (10,960).
In terms of infections, California has 2,371,465, followed by Texas with 1,798,238, third is Florida with 1,354,833, New York is fourth with 1,043,760 and Illinois fifth with 975,352.
The provisional death toll -349,920- 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 due to the pandemic.
US President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was confident that the final figure would rather be between 50,000 and 60,000 deaths, although later he predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that has also been exceeded.
For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, calculates that when Trump leaves power next 20 420,000 people will have died by January 1 and 560,000 by April 1.
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