China News Service, January 7 reported that the new crown epidemic in the United States is still not under control. A new study shows that the actual number of new crown patients in the United States may be four times the number reported, and the local medical system is under tremendous pressure.
According to reports, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association stated that the actual number of new coronary pneumonia cases in the United States may be four times the number of reported cases.
As of mid-November last year, one out of every seven American residents was infected with the new crown virus.
Data map: On January 1, local time, a citizen of San Francisco, California, USA wore a mask to relax in a park.
The latest statistics on the new crown epidemic released by Johns Hopkins University on the same day showed that the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 20 million.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Guanguan
Researchers conducted a series of investigations in more than 10 states across the United States, randomly taking blood samples to detect the presence of antibodies to the new coronary pneumonia.
By comparing the antibody infection rate in the sample with the number of reported cases, they estimated the number of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths related to new coronary pneumonia in the United States in 2020 to supplement the underreported data.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported a total of approximately 10.8 million cases of new coronary pneumonia by the end of 2020, but research shows that the actual number of infections may be close to 46.9 million.
In addition, about 35% of new crown deaths may not be reported.
On the other hand, data from the U.S. New Coronavirus Tracking Project showed that on the 5th, the U.S. reported that more than 130,000 patients were hospitalized due to the new coronavirus, reaching a new high since the epidemic, and the medical system is under tremendous pressure.
In California, which has the largest number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, nearly 4,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the past two weeks alone.
At present, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Los Angeles County alone has reached about 800,000, and the local medical resources are extremely tight.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 7:21 on the 7th, Beijing time, the cumulative number of confirmed new crown cases in the United States exceeded 21.25 million, and the cumulative number of deaths exceeded 360,000.