The U.S. began a grim milestone in 2021: within hours of the new year, the country surpassed 20 million cases of coronavirus, according to Johns Hopkins University, an increase of more than 1 million cases in a single week.
For months, the US maintained its international lead in the number of cases and deaths. As of Friday, Johns Hopkins reported that more than 346,000 people in the U.S. have died COVID-19.
India is second in the world for coronavirus cases. Despite the population of more than 1 billion people larger than the US, according to the World Bank it has about half the amount of COVID-19 cases and less than half the number of deaths.
More than 83,752.00 people are infected worldwide.
Several states in the U.S. have filed 1 million cases in the past two months, and more are about to do so. California became the first two million businesses on December 23 and became the third state on Thursday exceeds 25,000 COVID-19 deaths.
California hospitals reported that 1 in 5 COVID-19 tests came back positive, and health workers told CBS News that it’s just chaos. Hospitals in the state have seen more and more patients who are in their twenties and thirties.
Dr. Tirso del Junco Jr., chief medical officer at KPC Health Global Medical Centers, says hospitals are “on the verge of catastrophic moments. ”
“If you have multiple patients undergoing cardiac arrest or code blues, not everyone can respond to it,” he said. “So they have to make a choice. To whom do I respond? To whom do I not respond?”
While states try to manage the boom, a new strain of COVID-19 scientists believe that it can be transferred more easily, has been found in the US. Colorado announced its first case of the tribe on Tuesday, and a case was discovered just one day later in Southern California. The new tribe, named B.1.1.7., Is linked to a boom in the UK
Pfizer and Moderna both said their vaccines would be effective against the new strain; However, COVID-19 vaccinations are well below the number promised for the end of 2020. The Trump administration has promised that 20 million people will receive vaccinations before 2021, but from Friday less than 3 million people in the US received the vaccination of the 14 million doses.