{"id":1825,"date":"2020-12-07T14:58:15","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2020-12-07T14:58:20","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:58:20","slug":"us-sees-record-covid-19-cases-hospitalizations-on-sunday-as-pandemic-continues-surging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/?p=1825","title":{"rendered":"US sees record COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations on Sunday as pandemic continues surging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sunday saw new daily records in the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the U.S.\u00a0 According to the Covid Tracking Project<\/a>, there were 176,771 new COVID-19 cases reported Sunday, with 101,497 new hospitalizations — both daily records.\u00a0 The U.S. also posted a new record seven-day average of daily deaths, with 2,171.\u00a0 That\u2019s an average of 1.5 deaths every minute from COVID-19.\u00a0 Sunday also saw a record number of tests, with 1,634,532. \u00a0Since last week, there have been 14,859 COVID-19 related deaths reported, with five days over the 2,000 mark.

Pandemic numbers in the U.S. overall continue to head in the wrong direction.\u00a0 The U.S. has now reported over 100,000 cases every day for 32 consecutive days — more than a month — and over 200,000 daily cases for the last three consecutive days. In the last week, the U.S. has also reported more than 1.3 million COVID-19 cases, more than any other week on record. That means approximately 129 Americans are testing positive every minute. \u00a0In the last month, the average number of daily cases has doubled, with the U.S. currently averaging over 186,793 new coronavirus cases every day, the highest the average has been since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/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: 67,178,542
Global deaths: 1,537,975.\u00a0 The United States has the most deaths of any single country, with 282,345.
Number of countries\/regions: at least 191
Total patients recovered globally: 43,191,968

Latest reported numbers in the United States per <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University<\/strong><\/a>
There are at least 14,761,732 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 282,345. \u00a0New York State has the greatest number of reported deaths in the U.S., with 34,980.
U.S. total patients recovered: 5,624,444
U.S. total people tested: 204,063,869

The greatest number of reported COVID-19 cases in the U.S. is in California, with 1,368,237 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 39.51 million.\u00a0 This ranks third in the world after Maharashtra, India, which has 1,852,266 reported cases, and England, which has 1,479,097 reported cases.\u00a0 Texas is fourth, with 1,322,738 confirmed cases out of a total state population of 29 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunday saw new daily records in the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the U.S.\u00a0 According to the Covid Tracking Project, there were 176,771 new COVID-19 cases reported Sunday, with 101,497 new hospitalizations — both daily records.\u00a0 The U.S. also posted a new record seven-day average of daily deaths, with 2,171.\u00a0 That\u2019s an average […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1826,"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-1825","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\/12\/200703073900-boris-sanchez-covid-texas-florida-california-update-dnt-vpx-00004018.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","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=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1827,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wtibfm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}