The US recorded an additional 14,933 nCoV positive cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the number of people infected nationwide to 83,144. An additional 174 people died, bringing the number of Covid-19 deaths in the country to 1,201, according to statistics from Johns Hopskins University.
With the newly released data, the US has surpassed China and Italy to become the largest epidemic region in the world. China currently records more than 81,000 infections and more than 3,200 deaths, while Italy records more than 80,000 infections and more than 8,000 deaths.
New York, Washington and California are the three worst affected states, while the number of infections in other states and cities has also increased rapidly. New York is the epidemic of the country with the number of infections exceeding 37,000 and nearly 400 deaths. The state government is focusing on helping hospitals increase capacity by at least 50% when more than 5,000 Covid-19 patients have been hospitalized.
Craig Smith, chief of surgery at the Irving Medical Center at Columbia University in New York City, said the number of patients using ventilators at his hospital has more than doubled in the past three days. At least one hospital in New York has adopted a plan for two patients sharing a breathing machine. As of March 25, New York accounted for 25% of all people tested across the country.
Louisiana may be the next center of the epidemic in the US. In New Orleans, the state’s largest city, last month’s Mardi Gras celebration was thought to have triggered an outbreak. Demand for ventilators has doubled in Louisiana with about 80% of patients in the intensive care unit currently using ventilators.
This is a situation that was predicted in the US, showing that the disease continues to get worse in this country. Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior member at the Global Development Center, tweeted that the trajectory of American infections was "alarming". According to him, the spread of infections across the United States is also worrying, in contrast to China.
"China has a fire in Hubei but has put out the sparks everywhere. Now we have the fires in New York City with the fires almost everywhere else and they’re all firing sparks," Konyndyk said.
US President Donald Trump previously said he would talk to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Covid-19, but insisted his administration did not believe all the data from China. When asked about the possibility that the number of infections in the United States could surpass China, Trump said it was the result of a "very large" test in the US.
"First, you don’t know what the numbers in China are," Trump said. "I’m sure you can’t tell if China is testing or not. I think it’s a bit difficult."
A Washington University study on March 26 warned that 38,000-162,000 people could die in the US in the next 4 months because of Covid-19 and the possibility of hospitals being overloaded shortly after the second week of April. Trump Recently expressed the ability to loosen measures to close businesses, asking people to stay home. Experts are calling on the President not to relax those restrictions, warning the crisis could be even worse.
"The incidence of nCoV in the United States is constantly increasing, a sign that there are still many unidentified cases where we cannot test and there is still a lot of community infection," Ashish Jha, director of the Institutes of Health Global health Harvard said.
The world currently records more than 528,000 infections and nearly 24,000 deaths from Covid-19. Pandemic quickly became a disaster for the global economy. In the US, about 3.3 million people applied for unemployment benefits last week, the highest number ever recorded. G20 leaders vowed to pump $ 5,000 billion to prevent a global economic collapse from the pandemic.
