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More than 4 million cases of the novel coronavirus have now been diagnosed worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. The education and research institution, which updates its digital tracker cataloging global COVID-19 figures at least twice daily, initially reported the number on Saturday, totaling individual case counts from 187 countries and regions across the globe confronting ramifications of the pandemic. The tracker indicated that at least 50,000 additional cases were identified by Sunday morning.
More than 50 percent of cases detected since the virus first emerged last December were currently active on Sunday, the university's statistics showed. Of roughly 4.05 million people who contracted the illness overall, about 1.38 million had recovered, while nearly 280,000 had died. Those calculations suggested close to 2.4 million people were still infected worldwide, with the United States reporting the highest incidence of cases as well as resulting fatalities.
The U.S. became the new coronavirus pandemic's global epicenter at the end of March, when the number of cases confirmed nationwide surpassed those separately confirmed by Italy and China, which had previously reported the world's highest- and second-highest case counts. At the time, at least 92,000 people had tested positive for the disease across a handful of U.S. states, more than 1,200 of whom had died.
As Newsweek reported on March 27, the U.S. had recently seen a surge in diagnoses, having confirmed more than 50,000 positive cases over the three-week period following its 100th diagnosis. The data, originally published by The Financial Times, pointed to a forthcoming outbreak curve more severe than those experienced in any other affected country.
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Jarqui
(10,130 posts)The US has 28.5% of the world's deaths due to this virus but only 4.2% of the world's population.
jimfields33
(15,933 posts)By full population. Statistics are a bounty of interesting ways to look at numbers.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)Jarqui
(10,130 posts)Just compare Canada vs US numbers for example
Hav
(5,969 posts)but you'd be wrong, of course.
jimfields33
(15,933 posts)Italy with 30,000 divided by 60,000,000.
Total death by population:
We are a little less then a quarter percent
Italy is at a half percent.
You make this too easy!!!!
Hav
(5,969 posts)but in my view there are more countries that are part of "all the developed countries" than just Italy and the US. Come on, this is embarrassing.
You claimed that the US had the lowest death rate per capita of all of them and that is simply not the case.
But it's funny how excited you were when you were comically wrong.