The number of coronavirus deaths in the United States exceeded 350,000 at the beginning of Sunday, as experts predict another increase in cases and fatalities from the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Data compiled by Johns Hopkins University showed that the US crossed the threshold on Sunday morning. More than 20 million people in the country have been infected.
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The United States has started using two coronavirus vaccines to protect healthcare professionals and those over 80, but the launch of the inoculation program has been criticized for being slow and chaotic.
Senior officials in charge of Operation Federal Warp Speed set a goal to vaccinate 20 million Americans by the end of 2020. But according to a Bloomberg News count, by Saturday night nearly 4.3 million vaccines were administered in the USA to 1.3% of the population.
Many more doses of vaccine are piling up unused. Nearly 13.1 million doses of the two-dose vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna were distributed in the United States on Saturday night, according to the Bloomberg count.
Several states have reported a record number of cases in the past few days, including North Carolina and Arizona. Mortgage owners in affected southern California say they are being flooded with bodies.
In addition, three states – Florida, Colorado and California – reported cases of the new variant COVID-19 seen for the first time in the United Kingdom. The strain is considered more contagious and has led to travel bans and more restrictions in Britain.
The USA, by far, reported the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world, followed by Brazil, which reported more than 195,000 deaths.
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Responsible for more than 350,000 deaths, about 0.1% of the total US population 330 million died of complications associated with COVID-19.
President Trump, however, countered that the coronavirus numbers are “very exaggerated” by criticizing the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “ridiculous method of determination” on a Sunday morning. tweet.
Meanwhile, influenza disease has been associated with between 140,000-810,000 hospitalizations and between 12,000-61,000 deaths annually since 2010, according to CDC estimates. Between 2019 and 2020, about 22,000 people died in the United States after contracting the flu, and about 400,000 people were hospitalized with the disease.
Fox News’ Sally Pipes and The Associated Press contributed to this report.