{"id":1691,"date":"2020-10-30T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2020-10-30T13:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:50:19","slug":"us-sets-single-day-covid-19-infection-record-nears-nine-million-reported-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"US sets single-day COVID-19 infection record, nears nine million reported cases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United States on Thursday posted the greatest number of reported COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began.\u00a0 According to the Covid Tracking Project<\/a>, there were 88,452 reported cases, more than ever recorded in a single day in the U.S. and a 24% increase from the previous week\u2019s numbers.\u00a0 The seven-day average for reported infections is 76,302 per day, the Covid Tracking Project reports, with 46,095 Americans currently hospitalized with the coronavirus, and 1,049 deaths reported Thursday.\u00a0

The news comes as the number of total COVID-19 infections in the U.S. nears nine million, with at least 8,947,862 reported cases as of Thursday morning, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University<\/a>.\u00a0 That number remains more than in any other country and accounts for just under 20% of global infections.\u00a0 To put those numbers into perspective, the U.S. didn\u2019t surpass 500,000 reported cases until early April, nearly three months after the country reported its first confirmed COVID-19 case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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COVID-19 numbers<\/strong>
Here’s the latest data on COVID-19 coronavirus infections and deaths.

Latest reported numbers globally per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
Global diagnosed cases: 45,126,200
Global deaths: 1,182,368.\u00a0 The United States has the most deaths of any single country, with 228,675.
Number of countries\/regions: at least 190
Total patients recovered globally: 30,346,618

Latest reported numbers in the United States per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
There are at least 8,947,862 reported cases in 50 states + the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.\u00a0 This is more than in any other country.
U.S. deaths: at least 228,675.\u00a0 New York State has the greatest number of reported deaths in the U.S., with 33,435.
U.S. total patients recovered: 3,554,336
U.S. total people tested: 142,674,796

The greatest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is in California, with 924,323 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 39.51 million.\u00a0 That ranks third in the world after Maharashtra, India, which has 1,666,668 reported cases, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, which has 1,108,860 reported cases.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The United States on Thursday posted the greatest number of reported COVID-19 infections since the pandemic began.\u00a0 According to the Covid Tracking Project, there were 88,452 reported cases, more than ever recorded in a single day in the U.S. and a 24% increase from the previous week\u2019s numbers.\u00a0 The seven-day average for reported infections is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dont-miss-this"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Blank-1000-x-50022.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}