It took a little over a year for the US to go from one to 25 million coronavirus infections.
That’s an average of about 67,934 new infections every day, or an average of one new infection every 1.2 seconds since January 21, 2020.
As infections continued to rise this weekend, so did the death toll. As of Sunday, more than 419,000 people have died of Covid-19 in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The death toll in the United States could reach 569,000 on May 1, according to the University of Washington Institute for Health Assessment and Metrics – although “42,800 lives are saved with the launch of the projected vaccine”.
Threat of variants: Although some states have reported recent declines in their daily Covid-19 numbers, new variants of the coronavirus are of concern to many scientists.
“It is, first of all, good news to see this curve bend a little bit. We still have a very high level of infections,” said Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University School of Public Health.
“But I am very concerned if we will be able to sustain this or not. If we move forward quickly with vaccinations … then we can keep that curve going down. But if the variants take hold first, that curve will come back up. And things will get much worse. “, he said.
“So this is a race. Obviously, I hope we win.”
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