Washington state cleanup crews visit a Cochran County home for the elderly near Seattle to disinfect it last March.
The U.S. outbreak is worsening as variants of the Chinese Communist virus spread around the world. Data from Johns Hopkins University show that more than 3 million people were newly infected across the United States in a 13-day period between Jan. 1 and 13, 2021. 4,327 people died across the country on Jan. 12. Arizona and California are the states with the worst outbreaks.
By comparison, it took 167 days from the first case of the CCP virus in the U.S. on Jan. 22, 2020, until July 8, 2020, for the U.S. to reach 3 million infections.
The statistics also show that as of 3 a.m. EST Thursday (Jan. 14), more than 92 million people worldwide have been infected with the CCP virus, and nearly 1.98 million have died from the infection. Of those, at least 23.07 million cases have been confirmed in the United States, with nearly 385,000 deaths.
According to a forecast released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Jan. 13, the number of deaths from infection in the United States will reach 440,000 to 477,000 by Feb. 6, with the epidemic continuing to worsen severely from California to the entire Sunbelt to the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast United States.
The CDC said the number of single-day deaths in the U.S. has risen sharply over the past two and a half months, and the country is in the deadliest phase of the outbreak. Even as the vaccine is being rolled out, new infections are averaging nearly 250,000 cases a day.
Researchers in Ohio said Jan. 13 that they have identified two new variants of the CCP virus that may have originated in the U.S. One of the variants emerged in late December and early January and within three weeks had spread rapidly to become the dominant strain in Columbus, Ohio, in the state.
The new mutant does not come from the U.K. or South African branches of the virus, yet it is just as contagious as the variants detected in the U.K., said Dan Jones, vice chairman of Ohio State University’s molecular pathology department. The strain has spread through U.S. communities, spreading more than 50 percent faster than before the mutation, so the U.S. must be prepared and mitigate the rate of its spread.
In its latest report this week, the White House Outbreak Task Force said that the virus is set to return in full force in nearly all metropolitan areas and called on communities to take “aggressive action.
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