COVID-19 in the US: Cases, Deaths, and Latest Developments
COVID-19 affected more than 200 countries and territories all over the world, including two international conveyances.
To date, worldometer has recorded more than 21 million confirmed cases and over 760,000 deaths worldwide.
In the United States, over five million people have tested positive for COVID-19, with over 160,000 deaths from the illness. From the given figure, more than 2,800 recoveries have been reported as of this writing.
According to experts, the numbers don't present the entire picture in many cases, with the question of whether mild or symptomatic cases have not been diagnosed.
Additionally, each state follows a different COVID-19 trajectory. In particular, New York and Washington were hit hard during the early days of this global health crisis.
However, both cases and deaths have increased more slowly in some states than others. University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation claims that some states have not yet even reached their peaks.
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States with the Most COVID-19 Cases
Among the 50 states in the U.S., the ten states with the highest confirmed COVID-19 cases are California, Florida, Texas, New York, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, Arizona, North Carolina, and Louisiana.
Currently, California has recorded more 613,000 confirmed cases and more than 11,100 deaths. Meanwhile, Florida has a total of 563,285 cases and 9,146 deaths. Texas, on the other hand, has over 540,000 confirmed cases and more than 9,700 cases.
Next on the list is New York, with a total of 454,148 confirmed cases and 32,895 deaths. Georgia has recorded more than 230,000 cases over 4,500 deaths, while Illinois has a total of 204,023 cases and 7,932 deaths.
The last of the ten countries with high COVID-19 case include New Jersey with over 192,000 infections and more than 15,900 mortalities; Arizona, with a total of 191,721 confirmed cases and 4,423 deaths; North Carolina, recording more than 142,000 cases and over 2,300 deaths; and Louisiana with a total of 136,737 and 4,433 deaths.
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Latest Developments
In its most recent update in guidance, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended that individuals who recovered from COVID-19 don't have to quarantine or seek testing for at least three months from recuperation.
This new recommendation, which was last updated early this month, warns that those who were infected before, should still practice social distancing and wear face masks.
As mentioned, while the previously infected individuals practice distancing and wearing face masks, they are not required to quarantine or undergo testing unless they experience and develop the symptoms again.
Another development is that the Federal health officials have asked four states and one city, including California, Minnesota, Florida, North Dakota, and Philadelphia, to draw plans for how they would be distributing a COVID-19 vaccine to become available in limited doses.
A Promising Vaccine
A couple of days ago, a single shot of experimental vaccine reportedly showed promising results in monkeys as far as a vaccine is concerned.
According to a recently-published study, the monkeys used in the study that got an experimental COVID-19 produced an immune reaction following one shot.
The Jannsen Vaccines and Prevention researchers, as well as those from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, gave 32 monkeys a single dose of one of the seven different vaccine candidate variants and 20 of them, a dose of placebo.
As a result, following the animals' vaccination, they were all exposed to COVID-19 infection. All 20 monkeys that were given a dose of placebo got infected.
The ideal vaccine preempted the lung contagions of all six animals that were administered with it, and stopped nasal infection in five monkeys, out of six.
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Aug 15, 2020 07:30 AM EDT
