United States surpassed 20 million coronavirus cases | the Chronicle

The United States surpassed 20 million cumulative coronavirus cases on Friday and recorded a new hospitalization record for the fourth day in a row, hours after the country entered 2021 and passed the deadliest month in the pandemic.

In all, the country added 20,007,149 infections and 346,687 deaths from Covid-19, based on the updated Johns Hopkins University tally.

World’s worst coronavirus-affected country added in past 24 hours 221,444 confirmed cases and 3,255 deaths, according to a specialized portal which keeps the national accounts and despite the fact that the authorities had warned against the low number of tests or the delay of the results due to the holidays.

December was the worst month of the pandemic in the United States, both in terms of infections and deaths and hospitalizations. Either way, the peaks of April – when New York and neighboring states collapsed – and mid-year, when the epidemic spread across much of southern and western Canada. countries were overtaken.

Despite this alarming situation,
Experts have warned the numbers could rise even more across the country in the coming weeks, following meetings and year-end vacation travel..

This afternoon
More than 125,300 people have been hospitalized in the United States with coronavirus, the highest number since the pandemic reached the country, according to the specialized local portal The Covid Tracking Project, quoted by the ANSA news agency.

One of the main concerns is the state of California, where not only is the trend of cases, deaths and hospitalizations on the rise, but more infections with the new strain have already been confirmed. discovered only a few days ago in England and feared by the world in general to be easier to transmit.

Rising hospitalizations in Los Angeles County, the state’s most populous county, are pushing hospitals to “edge of disaster”said the doctor
Christina ghaly, director of local health services.

In this context,
the state already has refrigerated trucks ready in case their morgues collapse and some hospitals have already reported they need to locate patients in the hallways, the lobby and even in its confectionery, according to the CNN channel.

Also in neighboring Arizona, state health officials have warned the number of new cases continues to rise, as do the number of hospitalizations and deaths.

While in the southeastern state of Georgia, where the daily number of people hospitalized has doubled since mid-November, a convention center in the city of Atlanta was again in use today as a hospital for campaign, the third time since the start of the epidemic, before the start of the epidemic. the advancement of the disease.

Convention center beds
“They will help ensure that our hospitals continue to have the capacity they need for patients with and without Covid-19.”said the governor, the republican
Brian kemp.