US COVID-19 cases hit record for third day, topping 127,000

The United States has set a third straight daily record for new COVID-19 infections, notching more than 127,000 cases, John Hopkins University reported on Friday (Nov 7).

And the death toll by 8.30 pm (9.30am Singapore Time) in the last a day was 1,149, the Baltimore-based university said.

The outbreak has been surging for weeks in the united states, with the Midwest worst-hit even while the quantity of new diagnoses were approaching springtime levels in the south, northeast and west.

While deaths remain far lower compared to the peak in spring, Friday was also the fourth day in a row that fatalities were above 1,000. The last time persons were dying of COVID-19 at that rate in america was early September.

As of Friday evening, the united states - the worst hit country on the globe with regards to deaths and total cases - had more than 236,000 coronavirus-related fatalities and 9.7 million known infections.

Cases are expected to improve as the united states moves into colder weather and persons switch to socializing primarily indoors, prime conditions for passing the virus from individual to individual.

Colder, drier weather may also are likely involved in creating favorable conditions for the virus to linger in air and on surfaces.

Reasons that deaths are down from their peak include the fact that as cases are more disseminate geographically than these were in the beginning of the US epidemic, hospitals are better in a position to cope with the caseload.

Doctors also have learned how exactly to better treat serious cases of COVID-19 - by putting patients on their stomachs, avoiding the utilization of ventilators where possible and with them on low-pressure settings if they're required, and, perhaps most crucially, using steroids such as for example dexamethasone to tamp down a destructive autoimmune response known as a cytokine storm.

Since a larger proportion of folks getting infected are younger, also, they are less inclined to develop severe varieties of the disease.

Two vaccine makers, Moderna and Pfizer, say they might be ready to make an application for emergency use authorizations towards the finish of the month.

But if so when vaccines do become available, they're only likely to be moderately effective, and therefore people will need to continue to abide by masking, social distancing and hand hygiene to bring a finish to the pandemic.