It took just 17 days for the U.S. to go from four million cases to five million
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Perhaps the only detail more concerning than the latest pandemic milestone breached by the United States is the rate at which these markers are coming. According to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center, it took over three months for coronavirus cases to grow from the first reported case on January 20 to the millionth patient on April 28. The second million came at a quicker clip, a little over six weeks later, on June 11.
Though the outbreak of summer cases in hotspot states like California and Arizona begins to decline, the United States, the world leader in both deaths and cases, is still frequently experiencing over 1,000 deaths per day. On the same day that the U.S. passed five million cases, former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned that the death toll will almost certainly top 200,000 deaths by the end of the year.
Close to five months after the nation shut down in order to halt the spread of the virus and buy time to develop economic and public-health strategies, the United States is still without competent federal guidance, let alone an executive who understands the century-defining challenge at hand. In February, President Trump was calling the pandemic a political “hoax.
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