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1,000 died of Covid-19 in 1 day. Now the US is on track to hit 1 million new cases in 2 weeks
By Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 1452 GMT (2252 HKT) July 22, 2020
(CNN)The US is heading in the wrong direction with Covid-19 numbers, and it's doing so with astonishing speed.
Just after 1,000 people died in a single day, the US is about to reach 4 million Covid-19 cases.
To put that in perspective, the first reported case came on January 21. After 99 days, 1 million Americans became infected.
It took just 43 days after that to reach 2 million cases.
And 28 days later, on July 8, the US reached 3 million cases. Case number 4 million could be reported just two weeks after that.
As of Wednesday morning, more than 3.9 million people had been infected across the US, and more than 142,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Some states are reporting record-breaking numbers of new cases. More governors are requiring masks, and dozens of hospitals are out of adult CU beds.
And the surge is new cases has greatly outpaced the increase in testing. New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also show infections could be more than 10 times higher than the number of reported cases in some parts of the US.
At least 27 states have hit the pause button on their reopening plans or set new restrictions to help curb the spread of the virus.
But President Donald Trump said Tuesday the pandemic is likely to "get worse before it gets better," a prediction that's been echoed by other experts who have shared a bleak outlook on the next few months in the country.
Last week, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said the fall and winter will likely be "one of the most difficult times that we experienced in American public health."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
By Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN
Updated 1452 GMT (2252 HKT) July 22, 2020
(CNN)The US is heading in the wrong direction with Covid-19 numbers, and it's doing so with astonishing speed.
Just after 1,000 people died in a single day, the US is about to reach 4 million Covid-19 cases.
To put that in perspective, the first reported case came on January 21. After 99 days, 1 million Americans became infected.
It took just 43 days after that to reach 2 million cases.
And 28 days later, on July 8, the US reached 3 million cases. Case number 4 million could be reported just two weeks after that.
As of Wednesday morning, more than 3.9 million people had been infected across the US, and more than 142,000 have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Some states are reporting record-breaking numbers of new cases. More governors are requiring masks, and dozens of hospitals are out of adult CU beds.
And the surge is new cases has greatly outpaced the increase in testing. New data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also show infections could be more than 10 times higher than the number of reported cases in some parts of the US.
At least 27 states have hit the pause button on their reopening plans or set new restrictions to help curb the spread of the virus.
But President Donald Trump said Tuesday the pandemic is likely to "get worse before it gets better," a prediction that's been echoed by other experts who have shared a bleak outlook on the next few months in the country.
Last week, CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield said the fall and winter will likely be "one of the most difficult times that we experienced in American public health."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/22/health/us-coronavirus-wednesday/index.html
