As of Friday, the United States has surpassed 9 million COVID-19 cases, months after the first case was reported earlier this year.
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According to the New York Post, the country reported a single-day record of 80,622 infections and noted it was the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that more than 80,000 cases were reported in a single day on Thursday. Currently, the US has the ninth-highest number of deaths in the world, despite fatality rates dropping per day.
Also, 20 states have more cases within the past week than at any other time during the pandemic. Infectious-Disease expert Larry Chang said to the New York Times that he believed the country would have done a more honorable job of containing the virus and was surprised at the rapid rate of infections.
“I think it’s surprising how quickly it happened. I thought we would do a better job as a country getting organized and coming up with evidence-based national plans for mitigating this epidemic. So, while I’m not surprised we reached this number, it happened a lot faster than I thought it would.”
The current global number of coronavirus cases is 44,860,000 with the United States having the highest number of infections and India landing the second spot with 8,040,203 cases.