The United States broke a record on Friday for the most new cases of COVID-19 in one day, while California and New Jersey experienced a huge increase in one day.
According COVID tracking project, there were 310,080 new cases reported on Friday, 50,000 of which were in California and 20,000 in New Jersey.
It turns out that there were 23,083 deaths from COVID-19 already recorded in the first eight days of the year and 16 states reported their highest number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 this week, in signs of even greater concern for the post-holiday increase.
There were again established records for the average of seven days for cases, hospitalizations and deaths, with fatalities rising to an average of 2,934.
This week, 16 states reported the highest number of hospitalizations for COVID-19. In the photo, patients are pushed into the emergency room of the emergency room at Hospital LAC USC
The increase in cases on Friday now means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people, according to the COVID Tracking Project, shown above
23,083 COVID-19 deaths have already been recorded in the first eight days of the year, as shown in the monthly chart of the COVID Tracking Project on the right
Data from the COVID Tracking Project revealed that 3,774 more Americans died of COVID-19 on Friday, while national hospitalizations are currently at 131,889.
The increase in cases on Friday now means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people.
The most affected state since the pandemic state is New Jersey, which had another increase on Friday and registered 2,694 infections per million inhabitants.
It is followed by Kansas with 1,889 cases per million people and Arizona with 1,602 infections per million people.
Arizona has also surpassed its summer peak in hospitalizations, with patients rising at an alarming rate.
On Wednesday, health experts named Arizona as the new global coronavirus hotspot as the state’s outbreak worsened once again in Arizona.
The state is now the country leader with the highest COVID-19 diagnostic rate.
Since December 31, one in 111 Arizonans has been diagnosed with the virus.
The surge in new cases on Friday came when Dr. Deborah Birx warned that the United States could have its own mutant strain of COVID-19, just like Britain, because the virus is spreading so fast.
The United States broke a record on Friday for the highest number of new cases of COVID-19 in one day, while California and New Jersey experienced a massive one-day increase, pictured from the left.
Sixteen states recorded the highest number of hospitalizations this week
Hospitalizations are increasing at worrying rates in Arizona and California, in particular
Birx, who announced before Christmas that he would retire when Joe Biden took office, after blushing for ignoring COVID guidelines during the holidays, did the analysis during a recent meeting of the White House coronavirus task force. .
She presented a series of graphs and tables, officials said, who showed a serious increase in cases.
Birx speculated that this could be because a new, more infectious variant of the virus is circulating – just as Britain was shaken by the new B.1.1.7 strain.
His concerns reached the weekly report sent to state governors, which leaked on Friday.
“This fall / winter wave was almost double the rate of increase in cases compared to the spring and summer waves,” the report said.
‘This acceleration suggests that there may be a US variant that has evolved here, in addition to the UK variant that is already spreading in our communities and may be 50% more transmissible.
‘Aggressive mitigation should be used to match a more aggressive virus.’
Across the country, there have been more than 21.8 million Americans infected with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic and 368,679 deaths.