Exactly 4,005,414 Covid-19 infections were identified by Johns Hopkins University in the United States. With more than 143,800 deaths, the United States is by far the most bereaved in the world in absolute terms, ahead of Brazil and the United Kingdom.
After improving in late spring, the United States has seen the epidemic start to rise again for several weeks, especially in the south and west of the country.
More than 60,000 new cases per day
Texas, California, Alabama, Idaho and Florida each announced twenty-four-hour death records on Wednesday or Thursday. And more than 60,000 new daily cases have been recorded across the country in the past nine days.
The epidemic models predict on average a national peak in the next four weeks, according to the University of Massachusetts, which aggregates the models of about twenty research centers.
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