The United States recorded 1,592 additional deaths linked to the coronavirus on Tuesday in 24 hours. This heavy daily toll had not been reached for two and a half months, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University released at 8:30 p.m. local time. We have to go back to May 15 to find a death toll over 24 hours heavier than that of Tuesday. The epidemic had then killed 1,680 people in one day. The country has also again recorded more than 60,000 cases of coronavirus infection in one day, after a slight decrease in the last two days.
4.34 million cases diagnosed
The total number of cases of Covid-19 diagnosed in the United States now exceeds 4.34 million, and the country deplores more than 149,000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, making it by far the most bereaved in the world. After experiencing an improvement in late spring, the United States has seen the epidemic start to rise again since the end of June, particularly in the south and west of the country.
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Two weeks ago, new infections diagnosed every 24 hours exceeded 60,000 for twelve consecutive days (including three days to more than 70,000). Florida is of particular concern. With 186 deaths in one day on Tuesday, it exceeded 6,000 deaths in total. It is now the second state to identify the most cases (more than 440,000 in total), behind California. These two states have exceeded the number of infections detected in New York, which has long been the epicenter of the American epidemic, but where it is now under control.
The death curve is rising
Faced with the explosion of new contaminations, experts fear that the death curve will follow the same trajectory, with delay, since the scientific consensus is that the wave of deaths follows that of infections by three or four weeks.
She has already started to come up. At the end of last week, the number of recorded deaths had exceeded the 1,000 death mark four days in a row, which had not happened since the end of May.
However, these levels are not yet equivalent to those recorded in the United States at the end of April, when a large part of the country was confined and the barrier of 2,000 daily deaths was regularly crossed.