The US crossed the 3 million threshold for Covid-19 case on July 8 , and as of July 9 , 3,055,144 people in the United States have the respiratory disease make by SARS - CoV-2 . Of those 3 million , 132,309 have unhappily died . Just under 1 million people have recovered although some reportdebilitating symptomscontinuing post - convalescence . presently , we are not certain what the farseeing - condition effects of the computer virus will be .
The US became the epicenter of the pandemic in March and since then it has continued to direct globally with the highest numbers of case and deaths in the world . Currently , one - quarter of all global infectionsare in the US , double the issue of causa in Brazil , the country with the next highest figure , and over four times as many cases as India and Russia , presently third and fourth in the earth .
These numbers come from the Johns Hopkins UniversityCovid-19 Dashboard , which collate data from multiple source for the most up - to - date figure . The death figure is now higher than all the US casualties in World War I ( 63,114 from disease and 53,402 from combat ) . More people have died because of Covid-19 than the US casualties of the Revolutionary War , the War of 1812 , the Spanish - American War , the Korean War , 9/11 , the War in Iraq , the War in Afghanistan , and the Vietnam War combined ( 113,808 ) .
The US has also have the highest daily increase in fount with over60,021 new Covid-19 casesreported on July 8 for the previous 24 hours . This has followed on from a workweek ofdaily increasesof over 40,000 across the country . Last calendar week , Dr Anthony Fauci , a key appendage of the White House coronavirus task force , stated in a hearing held by theSenate Health , Education , Labor , and Pensions Committeethat the US was " live on in the improper instruction , " and the daily count could “ go up to 100,000 a mean solar day if this does not flex around , " adding , " I am very concerned . ”
These worrisome figures come after the Trump government officially send word the United Nations that theUS will leave the World Health Organization(WHO ) . This move places the US in a weak position in being able to manage with current and succeeding diseases and has been wide condemn by scientist , health organizations , and politicians on both side of the political gangway . Some experts have paint a picture that Trump is using the WHO as a whipping boy to budge incrimination and attention from his organization ’s mishandling of the pandemic from the rootage .
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