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US surpasses 25 million Covid-19 cases
There have been at least 25,003,695 total cases of coronavirus in the US and at least 417,538 people have died from Covid-19 since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The university recorded the first case of coronavirus in the United States on Jan. 21, 2020.
- 97 days later, on April 27, the US hit 1 million cases
- 104 days later, on Aug. 9, the US hit 5 million cases
- 91 days later, on Nov. 8, the US hit 10 million cases
- 29 days later, on Dec. 7, the US hit 15 million cases
- 24 days later, on Dec. 31, the US hit 20 million cases
- 24 days later, on Jan. 24, 2021, the US hit 25 million cases
There are 17 other countries in the world that have reported more than 1 million total Covid-19 cases, according to the university:
- India has over 10 million total cases
- Brazil has over 8 million total cases
- Russia, the United Kingdom, and France have over 3 million total cases
- Turkey, Italy, Spain and Germany have over 2 million total cases
- Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Poland, Iran, Ukraine, and Peru all have over 1 million total cases each
Changing the course of the pandemic won’t happen overnight, HHS secretary nominee says
From CNN's Naomi Thomas
Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, told CNN Sunday that the US can change the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, but it won’t happen overnight.
On Friday, Biden said “There is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months.”
“What I believe President Biden is making very clear, the plane is in a nosedive and we’ve got to pull it up,” Becerra said.“And you’re not going to do that overnight, but we’re going to pull it up, we have to pull it up, failure is not an option here and so we will.”
Becerra added that the President has put forward not just a plan, but a rescue plan that should be followed by a recovery plan, “but first you got to rescue the people, you got to rescue the economy."
When asked what the timeframe was for changing the course of the pandemic, Becerra again made it clear that it won’t happen overnight.
“We can do better, we can not only control Covid but get us back to real normality,” he said. “But it takes everybody, all hands on deck, we’ve got to make sure we’re coordinating and we are talking to people.”
New York state surpasses 34,000 Covid-19 deaths
From CNN's Laura Ly
New York’s Covid-19 positivity rate fell to 5.09% on Sunday, with 12,720 new reported cases, according to new data from New York state.
Total Covid-19 hospitalizations, intensive care unit admissions, and intubations are all down from Saturday’s numbers, the data showed.
There are 160 more New Yorkers who have died due to Covid-19, bringing the state’s overall death toll to 34,069, state data showed.
Currently, health department statistics show that New York’s Long Island and Mid-Hudson regions have the highest positivity rates at 6.99% and 6.85%, respectively. New York City has a rate of 5.58%, with the most cases in the Bronx.
To note: These figures were released by the state’s health agency and may not line up exactly in real-time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.
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