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Corona in the USA: Bitter balance after Thanksgiving holidays - current numbers crack a sad record

2020-12-11T20:53:23.721Z


At Thanksgiving, there is always a lot of travel in the USA - this year, too, many Americans did not go without visiting their families and friends - despite Corona. That now has consequences.


At Thanksgiving, there is always a lot of travel in the USA - this year, too, many Americans did not go without visiting their families and friends - despite Corona.

That now has consequences.

  • In November there was

    a debate

    in the

    USA

    similar to that currently taking place in

    Germany

    over

    Christmas *

    to be led.

  • US virologists warned against

    traveling across the country

    in the middle of the

    coronavirus pandemic *

    for

    Thanksgiving

    .

  • Now

    Johns Hopkins University

    reports more

    deaths than ever before.

Baltimore - If you listen to

Angela Merkel's *

last address, you know, it is now a matter of

life

and

death

: "If we have

too many contacts

by

Christmas

, and then it was last Christmas with the grandparents, then we will have missed something, we shouldn't do that" said the

Chancellor

on Wednesday in the Bundestag.

The

Thanksgiving festival

in the

USA is

currently showing

how celebrating

public holidays can

affect the number of

coronavirus * cases

- and its dramatic consequences.

The number of

corona deaths

recorded

within 24 hours has

reached a new high

here - around two weeks after

Thanksgiving

.

As of Wednesday, the

US

registered

3,124 deaths

linked to confirmed

coronavirus infection

.

This came out on Thursday from data from the

Johns Hopkins University

in

Baltimore

.

The researchers had recorded the highest value to date about a week

ago

on

December 3,

when they

reported 2,879 corona deaths

.

On that day there were 227,828 new infections within one day.

The value currently exceeds the 200,000 * mark again and is

221,267 newly infected people

.

Thanksgiving as a "superspreader event": family celebration demands tribute

In

California

alone

, the most populous

US state

, more than

26,000 new infections were

counted within a day

on Wednesday

.

The number of

Covid-19 patients to be treated

in

hospitals

across the country also reached

a new high

with more than

106,000 sufferers

.

It's a bitter record for the United States after

Thanksgiving

.

US health

experts had warned of

a drastic increase in the numbers

in advance.

Two weeks ago, however, millions of people ignored your appeal, as

Thanksgiving is

one of the highest holidays in the USA.

Despite the well-known high

risk of infection *

,

many Americans visited their families

around

November 26th

and

traveled

across the country by bus, plane and train.

A similar debate as in

Germany

just over the

Christmas holidays

will out, was in the

United States

and

Thanksgiving

preceded it.

Virologists

like

Anthony Fauci

feared

a surge in the

number

of

corona cases,

especially due to the brisk travel activity around the holiday

.

Apparently, the researchers' concerns that

Thanksgiving

could mutate into a "superspreader event" were not unfounded.

Video: US virologist Fauci fears corona shock - because of Thanksgiving

In terms of numbers, the

United States

is hardest hit by the

coronavirus pandemic

worldwide

*.

Since the beginning of this, around

15.39 million people have been

infected with the

corona

virus, and more than

289,400 people have

died from the

Sars-CoV-2 pathogen

.

In the meantime, all hopes are on the new

vaccines *

, as the country's clinics, doctors and nurses have long been working above every limit.

On Thursday, the

US Medicines Agency (FDA) is

examining

the application for

emergency

approval of

the Mainz *

vaccine from Biontech

and its

US partner Pfizer

.

The

FDA

had already announced on Tuesday

that it classified the vaccine as "safe and effective".

Next week, the

US vaccination committee

wants to get

the

vaccine from

the

US pharmaceutical company Moderna

on Thursday

dedicate. Here, too, an emergency license should be applied for. Time is of the essence,

the

US government

wants

100 million citizens, and thus almost a third of its population, to be vaccinated

by the

end of March 2021

. At least that is the goal of the elected President

Donald Trump *

.

Joe Biden *

, who was elected the new president and will take office on

January 20

, stacks a little lower - but no less high:

within 100 days

he also wants to

enable

100 million Americans

to be vaccinated.

(cos) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.

Source: merkur

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