Xinhua News Agency, Washington, November 21 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) The latest statistics on the new crown epidemic released by Johns Hopkins University on the 21st show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States has exceeded 12 million, and the cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 255,000. . In the United States, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown on November 15 exceeded 11 million. It took only 6 days to add another 1 million cases, and it took only 6 days to increase from 10 million to 11 million.
Recently, the growth rate of millions of confirmed cases in the United States has remained high. Since the cumulative number of cases exceeded 7 million on September 25, the number of days used for each additional 1 million cases has been continuously reduced from 21 days, 14 days, and 10 days to 6 days. At present, the United States is still the country with the most severe COVID-19 epidemic in the world, with the number of confirmed cases and deaths ranking first in the world, with confirmed cases exceeding one-fifth of the global confirmed cases.
A number of other epidemic indicators in the United States have also continuously set records. According to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 21st, the United States reported on the 20th that there were 192,673 new confirmed cases of new crowns and 1,885 new deaths. The number of new confirmed cases in a single day has once again refreshed the world in a single day. Record of number of cases. This is the 13th consecutive day that the number of newly confirmed cases in the United States exceeds 100,000 in a single day.
As of the 21st, the United States had an average daily increase of nearly 165,000 confirmed cases of new crown in the past seven days, a record high since the outbreak; the average number of daily deaths in the past seven days has also continued to rise, and currently has exceeded 1,400, which is a new high since mid-May .
Recently, the number of hospitalized cases in the United States is also increasing rapidly, and medical systems in many places are facing unprecedented pressure. According to the latest data released by the National Epidemic Tracking Project initiated by the Atlantic Monthly, there are more than 83,000 hospitalized patients with new crowns in the United States, the highest record since the outbreak.
Project data show that nursing homes, assisted living institutions and other long-term care institutions in the United States have become the "hardest hit areas" of the recent epidemic. In the week ending November 12, the state’s long-term care institutions reported nearly 30,000 new cases of new crown confirmed cases, an increase of 17% from the previous week, and the highest record since the project started to count this data at the end of May. According to the project, although this increase is astonishing, the actual data may be even higher due to statistical methods and other reasons.
Although various indicators of the new crown epidemic in the United States have been breaking new records recently, the project said that there is no sign that these indicators have reached a "peak".
Deborah Burks, Coordinator of the White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, said in an interview with the media on the 20th that the current increase in confirmed cases in the United States is obviously different from before, faster and wider than before.
However, in the face of the deteriorating epidemic situation, the US government has not introduced strong new measures to prevent the epidemic in time.
As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, the pressure on epidemic prevention surged. In a new guideline on how to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged people not to travel during the holidays to reduce the risk of infection and spread of the new crown, and to observe epidemic prevention measures such as wearing masks, washing hands frequently, and maintaining social distance.
