According to Reuters, the US reported the highest daily number of new COVID-19 cases on Friday with 83,948 new cases. When you consider that there are 86,400 seconds in a day, it means that almost every second a U.S. citizen has a new case of COVID-19, according to Mike Baker, a correspondent for the New York Times.
In the meantime, Dr. Angela Rasumussen, a virologist at Columbia University, predicted that by election day, the US will likely have the highest number of newly confirmed cases per day, with around 100,000 new cases in a single day.
By election day we will have 100,000 cases a day. Https://t.co/mFoJ2vmLx6
– Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen), October 24, 2020
An average of 800 U.S. citizens die from COVID-19 each week through October 23. There are currently 41,000 hospital admissions nationwide in connection with the ongoing pandemic, reports The Guardian.
In the third and final debate last Thursday, Republican President Donald Trump said we were “turning the corner” of the epidemic, which means we are improving towards sustainable change. There are no indicators that actually occur. At a rally on Friday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden quipped, “Up to 210,000 preventable deaths and there isn’t much he would do differently? If this is a success, what does a failure look like? “
Several pandemic experts, including Dr. Anthont Fauci, of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said cases are likely to increase even further in the cold winter months, when people gather indoors and meet for the fall and winter holidays.
As of October 23, the U.S. had over 8,535,200 confirmed COVID-19 cases and over 223,900 deaths. The epidemic has now killed more Americans than the US military conflicts in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, Afghanistan and World War I combined.
While Trump has promised that a vaccine will be out in a few weeks, Dr. Fauci said the majority of Americans won’t have access to it until well into 2021.
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