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Experts say U.S. fight against COVID-19 “failed miserably” as tally surpasses 7 million
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The total number of COVID-19 cases in the United States surpassed 7 million Friday, and its related death toll crossed the 200,000 threshold Tuesday, showing the country’s battle against COVID-19 is a miserable failure, U.S. experts have told the media.
U.S. COVID-19 case count rose to 7,005,746, with the national death toll reaching 203,240, as of 2:23 p.m. local time (1823 GMT), according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University.
California reported 801,006 cases, the highest among all states. Texas registered 747,491 cases, followed by Florida with 695,887 cases. The caseload of New York State exceeded 450,000. Other states with over 200,000 cases include Georgia, Illinois, Arizona, North Carolina and New Jersey, according to the CSSE.
U.S. COVID-19 cases topped 5 million on Aug. 9, and hit 6 million on Aug. 31.
By far, the United States remains the world’s worst-hit nation, with the most cases and deaths, making up more than one fifth of the global caseload and death toll, respectively.
“It is completely unfathomable that we’ve reached this point,” Jennifer Nuzzo, a public health researcher of Maryland-based Johns Hopkins University, was quoted by the Associated Press as saying eight months after the epidemic broke out in the world’s largest economy.
“We have from the very beginning lacked a national testing strategy,” Nuzzo said. “For reasons I can’t truly fathom, we’ve refused to develop one.”
The number of deaths is still increasing at a rate of nearly 770 daily on average, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The eggspurts refuse to accept the fact that almost half of the 350 million citizens in the US don’t give a crap what they think. They will continue to go without a mask, will not practice social distances, nor comply with State or Federal “rules”. You cannot arrest or shoot 150 million people. Stop blaming the government…the spread of the virus rests on the shoulders of its citizens.