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US, the number of confirmed cases increased by more than 200,000.
It is on the verge of collapse of the healthcare system, and there is even a prospect that the number of confirmed cases will increase after the Thanksgiving holiday.
This is New York correspondent Kim Jong-won
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Johns Hopkins University in the United States counted 205,000 confirmed coronavirus cases in the United States on the 27th, the day after Thanksgiving.
The average number of confirmed cases per day for the last week was 170,000, and just this month alone, 30% of the total cumulative confirmed cases, or 4 million, were newly infected.
The death toll exceeded 2,000 for two days in a row, and nearly 90,000 inpatients per day were on the verge of medical collapse.
The situation is still out of control, but the future is more problematic.
Even with recommendations from the US health authorities to refrain from travel, it was found that 6.5 million people by plane and more than 50 million people by car were on the Thanksgiving trip.
[Liana Wen/George Washington University Emergency Medicine Professor: Most of the people who traveled this Thanksgiving think they spent time indoors with loved ones.
In many cases, they are not immediate family members.]
After the Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, experts are concerned that the corona transmission will spread faster and more widely, with more than double the number of corona deaths per day.
[Liana Wen/Professor of Emergency Medicine at George Washington University: The coronavirus is still rapidly increasing, but now, on top of that, a more massive explosion is expected.]
Experts said that the vaccine will be supplied in earnest from next month, but the actual effect appears He warns that the worst catastrophe may come this winter, saying it will be next spring or summer.
(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, video editing: Jung Yong-hwa)