A pandemic of the new coronavirus has killed more than a million people worldwide.
More than 36 million people around the world have been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new respiratory virus, according to knowledge compiled through the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering. Criteria for diagnosis, through clinical means or laboratory control, vary from country to country. Still, the true numbers are believed to be much higher due to a paucity of controls, unreported cases, and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the extent of their outbreaks.
Since the first cases were detected in China in December, the virus has temporarily spread to all continents of Antarctica.
The United States is the most affected country, with more than 7. 5 million cases diagnosed and at least 211,725 deaths.
California has the maximum instances of any U. S. state. Usa, with more than 841,000 others diagnosed, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins. California is followed through Texas and Florida, with more than 803,000 cases and more than 722,000 cases, respectively.
More than 190 COVID-19 vaccine applicants are being monitored through the World Health Organization, of which at least seven are in 3 critical trials.
White House Security Office leader Crede Bailey is well and has been hospitalized since September with the coronavirus, resources showed ABC News.
Bailey was hospitalized before the Rose Garden event for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett on September 26, the resources said.
The White House declined to comment on ABC News.
John Santucci, Katherine Faulders and Ben Gittleson of ABC News contributed to this report.
The moment the top U. S. Marine Officer is in charge of the U. S. Marine Corps, he’s not going to be able to do that. But it’s not the first time He tested the coronavirus, the army branch said in a statement.
Deputy Commander General Gary L. Thomas tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday and had been quarantined since Tuesday after coming into contact with those who tested positive for the virus, the Marine Corps said.
The announcement comes a day after the adm. Charles Ray, vice commander of the United States Coast Guard, conducted the virus test.
Almost all members of the Joint General Staff are quarantined after an assembly with Ray at the Pentagon last Friday. Thomas attended the assembly in position of the Marine Corps commander, General David Berger, who was traveling abroad.
Thomas will remain quarantined at home and has mild symptoms, the Marine Corps said. There have been no other positive cases so far among the quarantined leaders, according to Pentagon leader Jonathan Hoffman’s spokesman.
Luis Martínez, of ABC News, contributed to the report.
In a video of about five minutes posted on Twitter Wednesday night, President Donald Trump said he believed that the monoclonal antibody cocktail he won from Regeneron as compassionate “is the key to his recovery” and that he needs everyone to do so. . to him.
“I need everyone to get the same remedy as their president. Because I feel good. I feel perfect,” the president said in his latest updated video on his health. He wasn’t dressed in a mask in the video.
Trump said his administration seeks regeneron’s treatment, as well as similar treatment from Eli Lily, an emergency license, a Federal Drug Administration process.
“I need to get for you what I have, and I’m going to let it go, it’s not going to pay for it,” he said, adding that it’s his suggestion to take the antibody cocktail.
So far, fewer than 10 more people have had access to the regeneron remedy outdoors from clinical trials, Regeneron CEO George Yancopoulos told ABC News friday.
During the video, Trump also called COVID-19 a “blessing from God” and a “blessing in disguise” because he then could see the therapy.
“To me, I came in, I felt good. About 24 hours later, I felt good,” said Trump, who left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Monday after being hospitalized on Friday.
Trump’s doctors said Monday that the president “may not yet be out of danger,” but that they are a “multiple approach” to his treatment, which will continue as long as he recovers at home.
Ben Gittleson of ABC News contributed to the report.
Over the more than two weeks, the number of COVID-19 cases reported a week in Montana has doubled, Gov. Steve Bullock said Wednesday, while the state set records for cases and hospitalizations.
Bullock said at a briefing that there were 2,451 new ones this week, compared to 1,249 last week. Petroleum County reported its first infection this week, Bullock said.
On Wednesday, Montana also reported a record number of new cases, with 733, and existing hospitalizations, with 235. ABC News’s Lauren Botchan contributed to the report.