The weekly counts of Covid-19 cases and deaths in the United States have never been higher, and government officials warn of more worrying patterns after the holiday season.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, the total number of Americans infected with the virus on Saturday exceeded 22 million, and more than 372,000 died.
From the states: Andy Beshear, governor of Kentucky, said the state is seeing a “real and significant increase in cases and our positivity rate from people’s gatherings around the holidays”.
“This boom we are currently in is at least twice as great as the seriousness of previous training we have seen,” the governor said Friday.
This is our most dangerous time. ‘
The state epidemiologist in Colorado, dr. Rachel Herlihy, on Friday warned of ‘early signs’ of an increase in Covid-19 cases. “We are starting to see the impact of the holiday in our data,” she said. Health experts believe about one in 105 residents is currently contagious, Herlihy added.
US riot in the Capitol: Health officials are also concerned that the storms of the US Capitol on Wednesday could have consequences for the pandemic.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Friday that the riot was likely to be a ‘boom’ that would ‘have health consequences for the public’.
“You largely unmasked people in a non-distancing way, all of whom were through the Capitol,” said Dr. Robert Redfield told the McClatchy newspaper group. “Then these individuals are now all going home in cars and trains and planes across the country.”
So I think this is an event that is likely to lead to a significant spread, ‘he added.
Record cases and deaths: In the nine days since the start of 2021, the U.S. has recorded more than 2 million new Covid-19 cases and more than 26,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
The Johns Hopkins data show that the country averaged 247,200 cases of Covid-19 per day in the past week – a high of all times and more than 3.7 times greater than a summer peak in late July. wash.
And the country has averaged 2,982 deaths a day in the past week – according to Johns Hopkins, the highest figure in the pandemic. This week, Thursday also saw the first time when the U.S. reported more than 4,000 coronavirus deaths in one day.
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