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The United States has reached another milestone in deaths from the pandemic that surpasses previous estimates Many patients must be treated in the same ambulances. Photo: FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP / Getty Images
By: EFE 11 from January 2021
WASHINGTON – The United States arrived this Wednesday at 22, 297, 109 confirmed cases already 409, 999 deceased by covid – 19, in accordance with the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
The balance is 3, 674 deaths more than Tuesday and of 240, 658 new infections by COVID – 19 .
Those figures were recorded one day after the country reached a new record of daily deaths from COVID- 19, With 3, 775 deaths recorded on Tuesday, according to Johns Hopkins.
The United States is experiencing a serious outbreak of the pandemic , with many states posting records of hospitalizations, and experts fear that the situ worsen by the arrival of the British strain of the virus, more contagious.
The state of New York continues as the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 064, 912 dead, followed by Texas (29, 165), California (27, 658), Florida (22, 317) and New Jersey (20, 523).
Other states with a large number of dead are Illinois (19, 775), Pennsylvania (16, 912), Michigan (16, 674), Massachusetts (13, 836) and Georgia (12, 236).
In terms of infections, California adds 2, 519, 799, followed by Texas with 1, 884, 830, third is Florida with 1, 420, 906, New York is fourth with 1, 064, 297 e Illinois fifth with 999, 288.
The provisional balance of deceased – 360, 999 – far exceeds the lowest level of l The initial estimates of the White House, which projected in the best case between 80, 01 and 240, 01 deaths due to the pandemic.
The Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often used by the White House, estimates that when Trump leaves office next 20 January will have dead 420, 000 people and for April 1 560, 01.
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