{"id":1734,"date":"2020-11-09T15:01:26","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2020-11-09T15:01:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:01:28","slug":"world-passes-50-million-covid-19-cases-us-continues-to-post-record-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"World passes 50 million COVID-19 cases; US continues to post record numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are now more than 50 million reported COVID-19 cases worldwide.\u00a0 As of Monday morning, data compiled by Johns Hopkins University<\/a> shows 50,517,420 global coronavirus cases.\u00a0 Of those, 9,973,563 are in the U.S., accounting for just under 20% of the global total.\u00a0

The U.S. is on track to surpass 10 million reported COVID-19 cases as early as today as infections continue to soar nationwide.\u00a0 According to Johns Hopkins University, the U.S. recorded four days with over 100,000 cases from Thursday through Sunday, with consecutive record numbers of infections posted Thursday through Saturday, when the number of new cases reported was 126,742.\u00a0 This past week, the U.S. reported a total of 727,154 new coronavirus cases — a weekly record.\u00a0 As of Sunday, the Covid Tracking Project<\/a> reported there were 56,768 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19.<\/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: 50,517,420
Global deaths: 1,257,922.\u00a0 The United States has the most deaths of any single country, with 237,584.
Number of countries\/regions: at least 190
Total patients recovered globally: 33,083,920

Latest reported numbers in the United States per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
There are at least 9,973,563 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 237,584.\u00a0 New York State has the greatest number of reported deaths in the U.S., with 33,694.
U.S. total patients recovered: 3,881,491
U.S. total people tested: 156,637,891

The greatest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is in Texas, with 990,930 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 39.51 million.\u00a0 This ranks fourth in the world after Maharashtra, India, which has 1,719,858 reported cases; Sao Paulo, Brazil, which has 1,125,936 reported cases; and England, which has 1,015,672 reported cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are now more than 50 million reported COVID-19 cases worldwide.\u00a0 As of Monday morning, data compiled by Johns Hopkins University shows 50,517,420 global coronavirus cases.\u00a0 Of those, 9,973,563 are in the U.S., accounting for just under 20% of the global total.\u00a0 The U.S. is on track to surpass 10 million reported COVID-19 cases as […]<\/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-1734","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\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"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=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}