This Sunday, 1,312 deaths and 57,736 new COVID-19 infections were recorded in the United States
United States reached 28 million 129 thousand 860 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and 498,880 deaths, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance at 8:00 p.m. (local time) represents 1,312 more deaths than Saturday and 57,736 new infections.
The leading American epidemiologist, Anthony Fauci, described this Sunday as “terrible” and “really horrible” that the country made nearly 500,000 deaths because of the pandemic.
California is now the hardest hit state by the pandemic with 49,327 deaths, followed by New York (46,812), Texas (42,162), Florida (29.06), Pennsylvania (23,565), New Jersey (22000858) and Illinois (22466).
The other states with a high number of deaths are Ohio (16,816), Georgia (16,744), Michigan (16,000,342, unchanged from the previous day), Massachusetts (15,000,826) and Arizona (15,000,505).
As for infections, California It totals three million 531 thousand 430, followed by Texas with two million 596 thousand 891, the third is Florida with one million 868 thousand 772, New York is fourth with one million 591 thousand 672 and Illinois is fifth with one million 174 thousand 332.
The provisional death toll -498,880- far exceeds the lower limit of initial White House estimates, which at best projected between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic.
United States President Joe Biden, has predicted that in February there will be more than half a million deaths and that in total more than 600,000 people will die.
For its part, Institute for Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) at the University of Washington, including models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic White House, estimates that as of June 1, 615,000 people will have died.
With information from López-Dóriga Digital.
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