News from President Donald Trump and members of his inner circle tested positive for COVID-19 sent shockwaves across the country, yet it’s not just the White House facing a wave of cases: Friday’s number of cases is the highest daily overall in nearly two months. .
On Friday, 54441 positive cases of coronavirus, the number of cases since August 14, were reported when the country recorded just over 64,000 cases, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University.
Daily instances in the country reached their peak on July 16, when 77,362 tests were reported.
Meanwhile, deaths have remained relatively solid in recent weeks, with the weekly average below an increase in July due and early August. However, it was announced that 906 Americans were killed by COVID-19 on Friday.
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A USA TODAY investigation into Johns Hopkins’ knowledge through Friday night shows that four states, Kentucky, Montana, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, set records for new cases in a week, while one state, North Dakota, recorded a record number of deaths in a week.
The peak in Wisconsin is marked.
The state, which did not report a weekly average of more than 1,000 instances consistent with the day through September, has reported more than 2,000 instances as of September 17 and 27 this week.
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Meanwhile, the country waits at least several more months until a vaccine is widely available. In September, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert R. Redfield said a mass vaccine might not be obtained. Americans until mid-2021.
More than two hundred days have passed since the first coronavirus death was announced in the United States, and since then, more than 7. 3 million others have tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 210,000 have died in the United States.
Contributor: Michael Stucka, USA TODAY
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