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New York continues to be the hardest hit by the pandemic in the United States

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The United States reached 26,671,333 confirmed cases of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and 455,555 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count of the Universidad Johns Hopkins.

This is the balance at 20.00 local time (01.00 GMT on Friday) is 5,282 deaths more than on Wednesday and 125,428 new infections.

The state of NY still the worst hit in the country by the pandemic with 44,298 deaths, followed by California (42,834), Texas (38,452), Florida (27,247), Pennsylvania (22,048), New Jersey (21,793) and Illinois (21,497).

Other states with a large death toll are Michigan (15,725), Massachusetts (14,784), Georgia (14,749) or Arizona (13,752).

As for contagions, California adds 3,377,944, followed by Texas with 2,462,338, third is Florida with 1,752,330, New York it is fourth with 1,450,912 and Illinois is fifth with 1,137,559.

The provisional death toll -455,555- far exceeds the lower limit of the initial estimates of the White House, which in the best of cases projected between 100,000 and 240,000 deaths from the pandemic.

The new president of the United States, Joe Biden, has predicted that in February there will be more than half a million deaths and that in total more than 600,000 will die.

For its part, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluations (IHME) of the University of Washington, whose models for predicting the evolution of the pandemic are often set by the White House, estimates that by May 1 some will have died. 595,000. EFE

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