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The United States wanted a break on Wednesday with 3,784 its bankruptcy diary for covid-19, according to data from the independent count of Johns Hopkins University.
This Wednesday also broke the record for new cases with 250,458 infections.
The total balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Thursday) was 16,931,636 cases and 307,076 dead.
The state of New York remains the hardest hit in the country by the United States pandemic with 35,927 deaths, followed by Texas (24,896), California (21,654), Florida (20,204) and New Jersey (18,003).
Other states with a large number of deaths in Illinois (15,777), Pennsylvania (13,109), Michigan (11,588), Massachusetts (11,513) and Georgia (10,228).
In terms of contagion, California is 1,683,606, followed by Texas with 1,531,067, third is Florida with 1,155,335, Illinois is fourth with 870,600 and New York fifth with 804,555.
The provisional balance of deceased -307,076- far exceeds the lowest level of the White House’s initial estimates, which projected at best between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths due to the pandemic.
Coronavirus pandemic in the United States
US President Donald Trump lowered those estimates and was confident that the final figure would be between 50,000 and 60,000 dead, although he later predicted up to 110,000 deaths, a number that has also been surpassed.
For its part, the Institute of Health Metrics and Assessments (IHME) at the University of Washington, in which models to predict the evolution of the pandemic is set in the White House, estimates that when Trump leaves power the proper January 20 will have killed 380,000 people and by April 1 500,000. EFE