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By March 26, 2020, the United States, with the world's third-largest population, surpassed China and Italy as the country with the world's highest number of confirmed cases. [86] By April 25, the U.S. had more than 905,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and nearly 52,000 deaths, giving it a mortality rate around 5.7 percent.
Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by U.S. state [8] On December 31, 2019, China announced the discovery of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The first American case was reported on January 20, [9] and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar declared a public health emergency on January 31. [10]
January 22. On January 22, the U.S. passed 25 million cases, with one of every 13 Americans testing positive for COVID-19. [24] January 24. On January 24, the Capitol Police announced that 38 police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 since the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol. [25] January 25.
The first, confirmed, case of COVID-19 was in New York State on March 1, 2020, in a 39-year-old health care worker who had returned home to Manhattan from Iran on February 25. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Genomic analyses suggest the disease had been introduced to New York as early as January, and that most cases were linked to Europe, rather than Asia.
This brought the total confirmed U.S. deaths due to coronavirus to 22: 19 in Washington, 1 in California, and 2 in Florida. Hawaii: Second case is reported by Governor David Ige and State health officials is an elderly man who tested positive after returning from travel to Washington state earlier in the month.
As of 10 March 2023, there were at least 6,881,955 [104] confirmed deaths and more than 676,609,955 [104] confirmed cases in the COVID-19 pandemic. The Wuhan strain has been identified as a new strain of Betacoronavirus from group 2B with approximately 70% genetic similarity to the SARS-CoV. [124]
The first case of COVID-19 in the U.S. state of New York during the pandemic was confirmed on March 1, 2020, [2] and the state quickly became an epicenter of the pandemic, with a record 12,274 new cases reported on April 4 and approximately 29,000 more deaths reported for the month of April than the same month in 2019. [7]
The first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 in North America were reported in the United States on 23 January 2020. Cases were reported in all North American countries after Saint Kitts and Nevis confirmed a case on 25 March, and in all North American territories after Bonaire confirmed a case on 16 April.