More than 22,000 people died from the Chinese Communist virus in the United States last week, setting a new record for the second week in a row, while the number of new infections diagnosed each week also hit a record high.
According to a Reuters analysis of state and county reports, California had the highest number of deaths from the CCP virus in the week ended Jan. 10, with 3,315 deaths, or about 8 per 100,000 people, a 44 percent increase from the previous week, Reuters reported.
Arizona had the highest death rate per capita at 15 per 100,000 residents, followed by Rhode Island at 13 per 100,000 residents and West Virginia at 12 per 100,000 residents.
Last week, an average of 3,239 people died each day in the U.S. from the CCP virus, surpassing the number of deaths in a single day from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Cumulatively, nearly 375,000 people have died from the CCP virus in the United States, or one in every 873 U.S. residents. By April 1, that number could exceed 567,000, according to the Institute for health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
Last week, more than 1.7 million new cases of CCLV infection were reported in the United States, a 17 percent increase from the previous week. Scott Gottlieb, former director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in response that new infections are likely to start decreasing in February.
Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday (Jan. 8), “By the end of this month, probably about 30 percent of the U.S. public will have been infected, and maybe another 10 percent will have been vaccinated, although the vaccine rollout has been very difficult. Then the level of many people who have been pre-exposed to the virus will have begun to be reached in the population so that the virus will not spread as easily.”
According to data from the COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run outbreak tracking program, 13.4 percent of people tested positive for the virus across the United States, down from 13.6 percent the previous week. Iowa had the highest rate at 59 percent, Idaho at 54 percent and Alabama at 45 percent.
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