The death toll from the coronavirus in the United States exceeded 350,000 early Sunday, as experts expect there will be another increase in cases and deaths due to Christmas and New Year holiday gatherings.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed that the US crossed the threshold early Sunday morning. More than 20 million people in the country are infected.
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The U.S. began using two coronavirus vaccines to protect health workers and those over the age of 80, but vaccination of the vaccination program has been criticized as slow and chaotic.
The top officials responsible for the federal government’s Warp Speed operation have set themselves the goal of vaccinating 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. According to a Bloomberg News report, nearly 4.3 million vaccines were administered to 1.3% of the population in the U.S. on Saturday afternoon.
Many more vaccine doses pile up unused. According to the Bloomberg count, nearly 13.1 million doses of the two-dose vaccines manufactured by Pfizer and Moderna were distributed in the United States.
Several states have reported a record number of cases in recent days, including North Carolina and Arizona. Mortuary owners in the badly affected Southern California say they are flooded with bodies.
In addition, three states – Florida, Colorado and California – have reported cases of the new COVID-19 variant first seen in the UK. The tension is reportedly more contagious and has caused travel bans and further restrictions in Britain.
The US reported by far the most deaths from COVID-19 in the world, followed by Brazil, which reported more than 195,000 deaths.
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The more than 350,000 deaths, about .1% of the U.S. population, are 330 million deaths due to complications associated with COVID-19.
However, President Trump has denied that coronavirus numbers are “very exaggerated” as he criticizes the US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention’s “ridiculous method of determination” on Sunday morning. tweet.
Meanwhile, since 2010, between 140,000-810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000-61,000 deaths have been linked to flu illness annually, according to estimates by the CDC. Between 2019 and 2020, an estimated 22,000 people died in the U.S. after contracting the flu, and an estimated 400,000 people were hospitalized with the disease.
Fox News’ Sally Pipes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.