The United States has exceeded 370,000 coronavirus deaths and more than 24,000 Americans will die from COVID-19 in the first nine days of 2021.
A total of 370,119 people have died since the start of the pandemic in the United States after 1,346 new deaths were reported on Saturday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University.
So far, 115,409 new infections have also been registered nationwide, bringing the national total to 21,978,182.
The latest figures are a disturbing sign of a post-holiday rise as As of January 1, 24,260 deaths and 2,003,618 new cases have been reported.
This week alone, 16 states reported the highest number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 and California experienced the deadliest day.
The state reported a total of 695 fatalities Saturday, a day after Los Angeles reported its daily death toll of 318.
This week, 16 states reported the highest number of hospitalizations for COVID-19. In the image, patients are pushed into the emergency room of the LAC USC hospital emergency room
On Saturday afternoon, in California, there were more than 52,000 new infections, according to the health department.
State hospitals continue to face an increase in patients with viruses and doctors fear the worst of the post-holiday points is yet to come.
“Patients take two to three weeks to get sick enough to need the hospital after being infected with the virus, and Christmas was just two weeks ago and we are already full,” said Dr. Anish Mahajan , chief Harbor-UCLA Medical Center doctor, told CNN.
Records of the seven-day average of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S. were recorded again on Friday, with fatalities averaging 2,934.
Of the 310,080 new cases reported Friday, 50,000 were in California and 20,000 in New Jersey, according to the COVID monitoring project.
Friday’s increase in cases means 44 states have reported at least 500 cases of COVID-19 per million people.
New Jersey had another surge on Friday and recorded 2,694 infections per million population.
It is followed by Kansas with 1,889 cases per million people and Arizona with 1,602 infections per million people.
Arizona has also outpaced the summer growth of hospitalizations with patients rising at an alarming rate.
On Wednesday, health experts named Arizona as the new global hot spot for coronavirus, as the state outbreak took another turn for the worse in Arizona.
Now the state leads the nation with the highest rate of diagnosis of COVID-19.
As of Dec. 31, one in 111 Arizona people has been diagnosed with the virus.
The growth of new cases came on Friday when Dr. Deborah Birx warned that the United States could have its own mutant strain of COVID-19, just as Britain does, because the virus is spreading so quickly.
On Friday, the United States broke the record for the highest new cases of COVID-19 in a day, as California and New Jersey experienced a massive one-day surge, in the image of the second left
Sixteen states have recorded the highest number of hospitalizations this week
Hospitalizations are increasing at worrying rates, particularly in Arizona and California
Birx, who announced before Christmas that he would retire when Joe Biden took office, after turning red to ignore COVID guidelines during the holidays, made the analysis during a recent coronavirus working group meeting. the White House.
He presented a series of charts and graphs, officials said, showing a significant increase in cases.
Birx speculated that this could be because a new, more infectious variant of the virus is circulating, in the same way that Britain has been shaken by the new strain B.1.1.7.
His concerns referred to the weekly report sent to state governors, which was released on Friday.
“This fall / winter wave has been almost double the rate of increase in cases than spring and summer,” the report states.
“This acceleration suggests that there may be a U.S. variant that has evolved here, in addition to the UK variant that is already spreading to our communities and may be 50% more transmissible.
“Aggressive mitigation should be used to match a more aggressive virus.”
Across the country, there have been more than 21.8 million Americans infected with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and 368,679 deaths.