“Twenty-five million cases is an incredible scale of tragedy,” said Caitlin Rivers, a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, who called the coronavirus pandemic one of the worst public health crises in history. Starting with the first reported case in the country last January, it took the United States more than nine months to reach 10 million cases. By the last day of 2020, the country had added another 10 million cases in just seven weeks. Getting to 25 million took about three more weeks, after a surge that peaked at more than 300,000 recorded daily cases before retreating a bit in early January. Experts say the true number of infections is probably much higher than the official tallies.

Source: bd News24 January 24, 2021 01:30 UTC