December 3rd According to a report by the Capitol Daily on the 2nd local time, the latest data of the “Coronavirus Tracking Project” in the United States shows that the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States has reached 100,226, exceeding 100,000 for the first time, including 19,396 severe patients. On the 2nd, there were 19565 new cases, which is 35,000 higher than the average number of cases in the past seven days. The number of single-day deaths reached 2,733, the highest number of single-day deaths in the United States since May.
Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reportedly predicted that the next three months would be “the most difficult period in the history of public health in the United States”, during which another 200,000 people may die of COVID-19 in the United States.
The agency warned that people should avoid traveling and crowd gatherings, otherwise more people will be infected and die as a result. Nevertheless, during Thanksgiving, the number of people traveling by air in the United States reached its highest number since March.