The United States surpassed 370,000 deaths from coronavirus with more than 24,000 Americans dying from COVID-19 in the first nine days of 2021.
A total of 370,119 people have died since the pandemic began in the U.S., after 1,346 new deaths were reported on Saturday afternoon, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Another 115,409 new infections have also been reported across the country so far, bringing the national total to 21,978,182.
The latest figures are a worrying sign of a post-holiday increase, as 24,260 deaths and an impressive 2,003,618 new cases have been reported since January 1.
This week alone, 16 states reported their highest number of hospitalizations for COVID-19 and California experienced its deadliest day.
The state recorded a record 695 new deaths on Saturday, the day after Los Angeles reported its highest number of daily deaths, 318.
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
There were more than 52,000 new infections in California on Saturday afternoon, according to the health department.
State hospitals continue to struggle with the increase in patients with viruses and doctors fear the worst of the post-holiday peak is yet to come.
“It takes patients two to three weeks to get sick enough to need the hospital after they get the virus, and Christmas was just two weeks ago, and we are already full,” Dr. Anish Mahajan, medical director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, he told CNN.
There were again records established on Friday for the seven-day average for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the U.S., with fatalities rising to an average of 2,934.
Of the 310,080 new cases reported on Friday, 50,000 were in California and 20,000 in New Jersey, according to the COVID tracking project.
The increase in cases on Friday means that 44 states have reported at least 500 COVID-19 cases per million people.
New Jersey had another peak 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 now leads the country 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.