US breaks Covid infection record for SECOND day in a row as 94,000 are diagnosed and total passes 9million
FOR the second day in a row, the United States has broken its own record for daily new coronavirus cases.
The country saw more than 94,000 new Covid-19 infections in 24 hours leading up to Friday, surpassing its previous record of 91,000 new cases reported on Thursday, according to a real-time tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The surge in coronavirus cases comes just days before the presidential election[/caption]With the latest numbers, the US has reached 9,034,295 coronavirus cases and appears to be heading in the direction of a second wave as flu season approaches.
“We are not ready for this wave,” Brown University School of Public Health dean Ashish Jha said on Good Morning America on Thursday.
As of Friday, more than 229,000 people have died since the virus began spreading in March, according to the university.
The daily death toll has risen in recent weeks but is still below the peak levels of the pandemic.
The US has seen a surge of coronavirus cases since mid-October [/caption] Some epidemiologists believe that Covid-19 spreads more easily in cool, dry air[/caption]Recent months have shown that a few weeks after infections, hospitalizations rise and deaths come several weeks later.
Different regions of the US are grappling with a range of pandemic issues.
In the Midwest and the South, where Covid-19 is spreading most aggressively, hospitals are admitting more patients and it is threatening to overwhelm the health care system.
In the Midwest and the South, hospitals are filling up with Covid-19 patients[/caption] President Donald Trump has continued to downplay the virus and hold rallies with little social distancing[/caption]Case counts are rising in the cooling northeast, which had flattened the curve in the summer.
Rural areas are also seeing more cases, including North Dakota, which reported the highest percentage of its population infected of any state, at 5 percent.
Some epidemiologists say that the virus spreads quicker in cool, dry air.
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The situation is exacerbated by people’s tendency to gather indoors in the winter.
President Donald Trump has continued to downplay the virus and hold massive campaign rallies with little social distancing.
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Friday condemned Trump, saying, “it is as severe an indictment of a president’s record as one can possibly imagine, and it is utterly disqualifying.”