20, the reports were more than 198,600 infections and more than 1,950 deaths. That pushed the country past 200,000 cases in a single day for the first time, with more than 205,000 reported as of late Friday night, along with more than 1,400 deaths.
19, when 187,000 cases and 1,962 deaths were recorded.įor that very reason, the numbers were artificially high on Friday, when many states reported two days’ worth of data. Many states did not report data on the Thanksgiving holiday, when the national tally rose more than 103,000 cases and more than 1,100 deaths - far lower levels than on the previous Thursday, Nov. The Thanksgiving holiday, however, caused skews in reporting at the end of the week, with a steep drop-off in new cases reported on Thursday, and then a huge jump on Friday. The country’s overall total, from the start of the pandemic, is over 13 million infections - by far the world’s largest outbreak. More than 1.1 million people tested positive in the past week alone. More than 170,000 people in the United States are now testing positive on an average day.
The milestone came as Americans traveled by the millions for the long Thanksgiving weekend and amid a Black Friday that saw some store crowding, even as merchants guided customers to online sales and limit in-person shopping. “We are on track to continue this accelerated pace of the epidemic and see even more speed of rise of cases because of the movement indoors, of activities around the country and because large numbers of people have moved around the country for the holidays,” said Tom Inglesby, the director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University. And the sharp escalation is likely to continue - or grow even steeper. The total number of coronavirus cases in the United States for November surpassed four million on Saturday, more than double the record set in October of 1.9 million cases. A hospital in Pipestone, Minn., last week.