The latest statistics of the new crown epidemic released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States on December 8 show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeds 15 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeds 280,000.

The United States has the largest number of cumulative confirmed cases and the largest number of cumulative deaths in the world.

  At present, the state with the largest cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States is California, with 1,397,237 cases; followed by Texas, with 1,334,750 cases.

  The number of newly confirmed cases in the United States in a single day is still rising rapidly.

Since November 3, the number of new cases in a single day in the United States has remained above 100,000 for 36 consecutive days.

Data show that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 10 million on November 9, and it took less than a month to increase from 10 million to 15 million, with an average of 1 million new confirmed cases every 6 days.

  These data come from the real-time data collected by the Johns Hopkins University New Coronavirus Research Project from various regions in the United States.

  (Edit Zhou Jing)

Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]