After the Thanksgiving holiday, from December 1 to 5, the number of new coronavirus infections in the United States increased by more than one million cases in five days, compared with the first new coronavirus infection in the United States on January 20, it took nearly 100 days to increase to one million cases, and now the rate of infection is alarming.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, from December 1 to 5, the number of new coronavirus infections in the United States increased to 1,000,882, and the total number of infections in the United States exceeded 14.5 million, with 281,199 deaths.
During the Thanksgiving holiday, 50 million people in the U.S. went out to visit family or travel. Experts point out that the impact of people going out on Thanksgiving is already being felt, and the overall situation is likely to get worse.
The nation’s neo-coronavirus epidemic has been intensifying since November, when the number of new cases of the virus reached a frightening peak of 100,000 cases per day. According to the COVID Tracking Project, since December, the number of new coronavirus hospitalizations in the U.S. has surpassed 200,000 per day.
The number of hospitalizations in Los Angeles tripled last week, and if the epidemic continues to heat up, the number of empty beds in local hospitals could plummet to zero within two to four weeks, according to Eric Garcetti, mayor of the city’s hard-hit city. To stem the spike in new cases, Southern California will begin a new round of home evacuation orders at 11:59 p.m. on the 6th of June. Although beds in Northern California’s San Francisco Bay Area hospitals are not yet at critical levels, officials warn that they have seen evidence of the epidemic spreading after the Thanksgiving holiday, which will cause a spike in the number of infected people in the community.
Dr. Shirlee Xie, associate medical director of Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis, told CNN: “Thousands of people are being infected with this virus every day, which means that within the next few days, within a week, hundreds of people will come to the hospital, hundreds of people will die, but those of us who are caring for the sick will have to look at them and say, ‘I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do for you.
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