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It was estimated that over 1.8 million people died from corona in the world last year.
Of these, 350,000, or 20%, came from the United States alone.
This is Kim Jong-won from New York.
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December 31, the cumulative corona death in the United States was 350,000, or 20% of the world's deaths.
The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States, analyzed that the death toll will increase to 400,000 by January 20, but it means that an additional 50,000 people will be killed in the next three weeks.
Things keep getting worse, but vaccinations aren't as fast as you might think.
As of the 28th, 2.6 million people were vaccinated in the U.S., which is only one eighth of the original plan to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2020.
[Anthony Pouch/Director of the National Medical Center Allergy and Infectious Disease Research: We are not far below the target we decided to inoculate by the end of December.
The number of 2 million is far below the goal.
The
vaccination rate was far lower
than what we wanted.] As the
vaccination rate was far below expectations, Dr. Pouch of the US National Medical Center, the highest authority on corona prevention in the United States, pre-marketed the amount of secondary vaccination stocked for the first inoculator He said he was considering a solution.
Meanwhile, President-elect Biden said that on the eve of the presidential inauguration ceremony on the 19th of this month, they will hold a memorial event for corona deaths across the United States.