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More than 1 million people worldwide have died as a result of the novel's consequences Coronavirus from Monday evening to tracking numbers from John Hopkins University. The grim milestone comes less than a week after the number of disease-related deaths in the U.S. topped 200,000.
More than 33 million people have tested positive for the coronavirus, more than 7 million of them in the United States.
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COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, has spread rapidly around the world. India has the second highest number of cases at 6 million, followed by Brazil with 4.7 million, Russia with 1.1 million, and Colombia and Peru, both of which have recorded more than 800,000 cases.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told states to be prepared for a vaccine to arrive by the end of next month. Others say the timeline is unlikely. The Washington Post also reported Tuesday that there will likely be no vaccine on Election Day on November 3, as the FDA reportedly introduced new, stricter standards.
Most public health experts - including leading U.S. infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and Robert Redfield, director of the CDC - have announced that they expect a sharp increase this fall and winter. The White House has admitted that it is preparing for the possibility. However, part of that prediction was based on the assumption that the virus would slow down over the summer, which it doesn't seem to have done.
"We look like we will have a very fatal December ahead of us in terms of coronavirus numbers," said Institute of Health Metrics and Assessment Director Dr. Christopher Murray told CNN. According to an IHME computer model, the number of deaths in the US could double in the next four months.
Overall, the U.S. cases have gradually decreased, which experts attribute to increased masking and social distancing practices in July.
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