Figures continue to worsen in the United States. The Covid-19 pandemic has now affected more than half a million people there. Friday, she killed 2100, the highest death toll since the American territory is affected by this disease.
The United States has become the first country in the world to exceed 2,000 deaths from the new coronavirus in one day, with an additional 2,108 deaths. These figures are those recorded by Johns Hopkins University at 8:30 p.m. local Friday, 2:30 this Saturday in Paris.
The number of deaths recorded in the United States is 18,586. This total is very close to that of the most bereaved country, Italy, which has 18,849 deaths, but with a population five times smaller.
The new epicenter of the pandemic
The United States notes, since the middle of last week, more than 1000 new daily deaths. They have already recorded Tuesday and Wednesday nearly 2000 deaths in 24 hours, then also the worst daily reports in the world since the start of the pandemic. For comparison, the United States is populated by around 330 million inhabitants, five times more than France. Where on Friday, the latest toll reported more than 13,000 deaths.
The epicenter of the American epidemic is in New York. This state alone deplores more than 7,800 deaths and more than 160,000 positive cases. The United States is, since the end of March, the country with the most recorded cases of infections, with more than a quarter of the officially declared cases in the world. On Friday, they crossed the line of half a million officially sick people. They should therefore become the new epicenter of the pandemic, ahead of Europe, which registers more than 850,000 cases.
"More than 2.1 million tests have been performed" in the country, said US Vice President Mike Pence on Friday. President Donald Trump regularly reiterates that this is the largest number of tests performed by a country, which, he says, explains the number of cases identified much higher than elsewhere. According to the ourworldindata.com site, this is indeed the case in absolute terms. However, in proportion to their population, Italy and South Korea carried out more tests.
Proportionally 6 times fewer deaths than in Spain
The latest forecasts, which take into account how the epidemic has evolved in China and Europe, anticipate a final death toll of 60,000 due to the first wave of the Covid-19. Initial estimates predicted 100,000 to 200,000 deaths. Seasonal flu kills tens of thousands of people in the United States each year.
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Compared to their number of inhabitants, the United States has a balance sheet which remains clearly below that of other countries. According to Johns Hopkins University, Spain deplores more than 34 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants. It is ahead of Italy (31 dead per 100,000 inhabitants), Belgium (26) and France (20). The United States lost precisely 5.68 inhabitants per 100,000 because of the Covid-19. It is six times less than Spain. But it's almost twice as much as in Germany.
This statistic also highlights the theoretical low number of deaths in China. Cradle of the epidemic, it would account for only 0.24 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, or 3,335 in all. There are serious doubts about the reliability of this data. "Today, the government has decided that there were X dead in China, period," said Marie Holzman, specialist in China, this week to the Parisian.
More generally, the death toll is particularly difficult to establish. In addition to the people who died in the hospital, who are rather well registered, there are those in Ehpad, where the cause is not necessarily well taken into account. In addition, many deaths at home are the result of Covid-19 and do not necessarily enter official statistics.