COVID-19: US suffers highest death toll as 2,400 Americans killed in one day.

COVID-19: US suffers highest death toll as 2,400 Americans killed in one day

 


The United States coronavirus death toll is the highest it’s been in nearly a week after a staggering 2,474 people died from COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
As of early Wednesday morning, 45,435 Americans have now been killed by coronavirus since the pandemic began ravaging the country last month, reports the dailymail.co.uk.
Confirmed cases of the deadly illness also surged by 26,558 across Tuesday, bringing total US cases of COVID-19 up to 827,093.
As a result of the ominous statistics, the main model used by the White House to estimate the impact of the novel coronavirus outbreak has now increased its projection of expected deaths by August to 65,976 – 5,561 more than previously forecasted on April 9.
The model, from the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), is constantly being fed new data and will change to reflect the data it’s seeing.
However, the model assumes that all states are implementing ‘broad, aggressive social distancing policies’, so the current projection has not yet factored in any plans from states, such a Georgia or South Carolina, to ease social distancing measures early.
IHME’s model had previously predicted over 90,000 deaths by August last month, but that number dropped to 82,000 on April 7, before decreasing by another 20,000 days later.
The drastic reduction signalled to experts at IHME that social distancing measures were working in the fightback against COVID-19.
However, a number of states including Georgia have started taking steps to begin reopening their economies and lifting stay-at-home orders.
Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced Monday that bowling alleys, salons, barbershops and a number of other indoor facilities that have been closed across Georgia since April 2 will be permitted to reopen this Friday – despite deaths and infections spiking in the state on Tuesday.
The death toll in the state increased by 131 in 24 hours, bringing the total number of fatalities to 818. Infections also surged by more than 1,000, bringing the number of cases in the state up to 20,166.
*Latest updates on #COVID19 global confirmed cases at 0200 GMT, April 22
World: 2,563,384
U.S.: 824,438
Spain: 204,178
Italy: 183,957
France: 159,299
Germany: 148,453
Britain: 130,175
Turkey: 95,591
Iran: 84,802
China: 82,788
Russia: 52,763

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