This content was published on February 15, 2021 – 01:10
Washington, Feb 14 (EFE) .- The United States reached this Sunday 27,638,751 confirmed cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and 485,305 deaths from the covid-19 disease, according to the independent count from Johns Hopkins University.
This balance, at 8:00 p.m. local time (01:00 GMT on Monday), is 1,379 more deaths than on Saturday and 70,651 new infections.
California is now the nation’s state hardest hit by the pandemic, with 47,027 deaths, followed by New York (46,069), Texas (41,535), Florida (28,779), Pennsylvania (23,190), New Jersey (22,454), Illinois ( 22,121) and Ohio (16,346).
Other states with a large death toll are Michigan (16,119), Georgia (15,871), Massachusetts (15,484), and Arizona (14,975).
In terms of infections, California has 3,471,198, followed by Texas with 2,573,699, third is Florida with 1,827,373, New York is fourth with 1,576,188 and Illinois fifth, with 1,162,154.
The provisional death toll – 485,305 – far exceeds the lowest level of the initial estimates of the White House, which under the government of the previous US President, Donald Trump (2017-2021), projected in the best of cases 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 people will die as a result of covid-19.
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 June 1 some will have died. 630,000 citizens of the country. EFE
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