Global Coronavirus Cases Top 20 Million, Doubling In 45 Days
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Source: AP News
By Elaine Kurtenbach and Mark Stevenson, today.
MITO, Japan (AP) The number of coronavirus cases topped 20 million on Tuesday, more than half of them from the U.S., India and Brazil.
Health officials believe the actual number is much higher than that tally kept by Johns Hopkins University, given testing limitations and the fact that as many as 40% of those who are infected have no symptoms.
It took six months or so to get to 10 million cases after the virus first appeared in central China late last year. It took just over six weeks for that number to double.
An AP analysis of data through Aug. 9 showed the U.S., India and Brazil together accounted for nearly two-thirds of all reported infections since the world hit 15 million coronavirus cases on July 22...
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USA, No.1 ! The U.S. has about one-fifth of reported deaths, or more than 163,000, the highest in the world.
Mexico's President Obrador, like Brazils Bolsonaro & President Trump, seldom wears a mask & has resisted calls for a strict lockdowns, saying Mexicans should be convinced to observe social distancing, not forced to do so by police or fines.
Mexico has struggled with how to curb outbreaks.. The country's relatively high death rate results partly from it having one of the worlds highest rates of obesity & diabetes. There has also been relatively little testing..
India reported 53,601 new cases Tuesday as its count of total infections neared 2.3 million. Its reported case fatality rate, of 2%, is much lower than in the U.S. & Brazil.. Border closures, masks, lockdowns & infection data are now the new way of life for much of the world, not the politically combustible factors they are in the U.S.
Kaiser Health News service & The AP found that in the U.S. at least 49 state & local public health leaders have resigned, retired or been fired since April.. There have also been attacks on public health experts & institutions from the highest levels.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)And most of those will probably be in the US.
appalachiablue
(41,056 posts)IronLionZion
(45,263 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,679 posts)You can't trust China, Russia, or India to be reporting anywhere near their true numbers..........
You want to see a spike in U.S. ?????? Just wait a month after all the quarter of a million people go home to their cities after the Sturgis crowd goes home.................
Cute.......South Dakota makes an estimated 65 million in Tax Revenue, then sends the nightmare THEY created out of their state and to every state across the country......