It took just over a year for the United States to go from one to 25 million coronavirus infections.
That is, an average of about 67,934 new infections each day, or an average of one new infection every 1.2 seconds as of January 21, 2020.
As infections shot up this weekend, so did the death toll. As of Sunday, more than 419,000 people have died from Covid-19 in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The death toll in the United States could reach 569,000 on May 1, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Assessment at the University of Washington, although “the launch of the projected vaccine will save 42,800 lives.”
Threat of variants: Although some states have reported recent drops in their daily numbers of Covid-19, new variants of the coronavirus are of concern to many scientists.
“First of all, it’s good news to see how this curve tilts a bit. We’re still at a very high level of infections,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health.
“But I’m very worried about whether we can keep this or not. If we move fast in vaccination … then we can keep that curve down. But if the variants stay first, that curve will keep going up again. And things will get a lot worse. “, he said.
“So this is a race. Obviously, I hope we win.”
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