US Reaches 12 Million Total Coronavirus Cases

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A medical staff member takes nasal swabs as he tests for COVID-19 at a family doctor medical office in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. Italian family doctors have started to perform rapid tests for coronavirus in order to ease pressure on the health system overwhelmed with requests. The first Western country to identify a domestic outbreak, Italy’s death toll stands at 47,870, second to Britain in Europe. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

BALTIMORE — More than 12 million people in the U.S have contracted the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic.

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The nation’s total number of confirmed cases reached 12.01 million on Saturday, six days after the number had reached 11 million, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Daily numbers of new U.S. cases are approaching 200,000, less than three weeks after hitting 100,000 for the first time. The record of 195,542 new cases on Friday was the latest of several recent daily highs.

Deaths rates are getting closer to the dire numbers seen in the spring. The U.S. daily death toll exceeded 2,000 on Thursday, the first time since early May. On Friday, 1,878 deaths were reported.

The U.S. leads the world with more than 255,000 dead.


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Educated Archy
Educated Archy
3 years ago

Pretty scary but it is what it is . We can’t really stop it as it’s not in our hands . You hide in your basement and it will hit you when you unlock . It’s in France and other countries too . We need to continue to Daven . And than you mr president for the Trump vaccine that will be distributed by president elect Biden .