Coronavirus in the United States: the situation is getting worse and there has been …

United States reached Tuesday a record of nearly 62,000 hospitalized for coronavirus and exceeded one million new cases in the first ten days of November, in the midst of a strong spike in infections that shows no signs of remission.

The increase in cases in the fall seems larger and more generalized than the situation in previous months, and is likely to be much worse, although experts assure that there are also reasons to believe that the country is better prepared this time.

“We are certainly in a better position in terms of therapeutic tools and knowledge about the virus,” said Dr William Hanage, infectious disease researcher at Harvard University, quoted by the CNN.

Daily new infections surpass 100,000 mark, and total already exceeds 10.25 million positives. As of Tuesday, the country recorded a record 136,325 coronavirus cases and 1,420 deaths, according to the official count from Johns Hopkins University. Meanwhile, 61,964 people are admitted to hospitals with Covid-19.

Several states set daily case records, including Pennsylvania, Illinois and West Virginia; while Texas became the first state in the country to exceed 1 million infections.

The number of deaths is also on the rise in the United States, on average more than 930 per day. Many hospitals across the country are severely overloaded.

Meanwhile, several state governors are making desperate appeals to citizens to take the dangerousness of the virus more seriously.

Since the start of the pandemic, the United States has accumulated at least 10,252,129 infections and 239,671 deaths. Recent president-elect Joe Biden has announced that treating the disease will be one of his management priorities, for which he appointed a committee of scientists this week to advise him on the matter.

On Tuesday, one of the team’s experts predicted that things would get even worse in the coming weeks. “I won’t be surprised if we see more than 200,000 cases a day in the coming weeks,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.