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Only one month ago, on March 3, there were about 92,000 cases of the novel coronavirus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Of those, just over 80,000 were in mainland China, which was then slowly beginning to bring its local epidemic under control.
Since then, the number of cases around the world has skyrocketed. One month later, on April 3, there are more than 1 million infections globally.
Nowhere is this more clear than in the United States. On March 3,the country had recorded 118 cases, according to Johns Hopkins. It now has more than 245,000.
Just over a month ago, on March 1, Kings County in Washington state announced the first death from the coronavirus in the United States.
As of today, there are nearly 6,000 deaths in the US. Some US government estimates show a worst-case scenario with a death toll for the country that runs into the hundreds of thousands.
It still isn’t clear when we will see a peak of the pandemic. While some countries are seeing a drop in the rate of new daily infections, such as South Korea, others are experiencing a second wave.
Speaking at a CNN town hall on Thursday, top US infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it could be some time before widespread lockdowns and stay-at-home orders have an effect on death tolls and infection counts.
«Even when you suppress or stabilize the number of new infections, it’s still going to take a little while before you decrease in hospitalizations, a decrease in intensive care and a decrease in deaths. And in fact, deaths are the last thing that lag. So you could be doing well, and having a good effect on mitigation, and still see the deaths go up,» Fauci said.
