The skyscrapers of New York, April 10, 2020. – John Minchillo / AP / SIPA
It’s a very sad record for the first world power. The United States became the first country in the world to exceed the 2,000 dead of the new coronavirus in one day, with 2,108 additional deaths recorded in 24 hours. According to the count of Johns Hopkins University on Friday, the total number of deaths recorded in the country is thus 18,586, which is very close to the most bereaved country, Italy, which has 18,849 deaths, but with a population five times less important.
Half a million cases
The United States records since the middle of last week more than 1,000 new daily deaths, and had already recorded Tuesday and Wednesday nearly 2,000 deaths in 24 hours, then also the worst daily reports in the world since the start of the pandemic. Especially this figure could continue to increase. America is approaching half a million officially declared cases of the disease (+35,000 cases recorded in 24 hours). The epicenter of the epidemic is located New York, the state alone deplores more than 7,800 deaths and more than 160,000 positive cases.
Since the end of March, the United States has been the country with the most recorded cases of infections, with more than a quarter of the officially declared cases in the world. “More than 2.1 million tests have been performed” in the country, said US Vice President Mike Pence Friday at the White House Crisis Cell daily press conference.
We urge every American to visit https://t.co/RtlQat6o3F to learn how they can do their part to slow the spread. pic.twitter.com/3Ti9zq3Be5
– Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) April 9, 2020
For Donald trump, the explanation for the high figures compared to other countries is there. He regularly repeats that this is the largest number of tests performed by a country. But, According to the site Ourworldindata, this is indeed the case in absolute terms, but proportionally to their population, Italy and South Korea performed more tests than the Americans.
Predictions of the number of deaths in the United States according to the most cited model (IHME), which takes into account the way the epidemic has evolved in China and Europe, have in recent days been revised several times downwards to the first wave: from 93,000 to 82,000, then to 60,000 deaths.
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