US has TWICE as many coronavirus cases as Italy with Michigan, Louisiana and Georgia the next ‘hotspots’
THE US has double the coronavirus cases in Italy with Michigan, Louisiana and Georgia flagged as the next "hotspots."
There are currently 270,473 patients on American soil versus 's 119,827 infections, with as the US epicenter.
Both countries - as well as European hotspots (117,710 cases) and Germany (91,159) - have all surpassed the 82,511 cases in , where the disease first emerged.
The Chinese population is the largest in the world at 1.4 billion, while the US is home to around 331 million people and Italy's population is approximately 60 million.
But communist China and the World Health Organization (WHO) came under fire for
The disease, which originated at a Wuhan meat market, has since spread to over a million people, killing at least 7,077 Americans.
New York is currently the worst affected with a 35 percent rate of positive tests and over 102,000 cases.
Governor Cuomo Friday bringing the death toll from 2,373 to 2,935.
This breaks down to 23 people dying on the hour in New York since Thursday.
But Dr Deborah Birx, who is on the White House coronavirus task force, warned other states would be next.
", , , , - that should tell you where the next hot spots are coming - are at 15 percent test positive," Birx told reporters Thursday.
"Then Colorado, DC, Rhode Island and Massachusetts are at 13 percent."
Michigan now has in the country, with Detroit set to be the next urban epicenter, with 6,062 cases in Wayne County as of April 3.
At least 12,744 cases emerged statewide with - an uptick of 62 fatalities in 24 hours.
Louisiana was previously identified as the next hotspot due to the surge stemming from New Orleans' Mardi Gras festivities, which draws thousands of garland-clad tourists.
There are currently , with 3,476 infections in New Orleans.
The Georgia Department of Public Health (DPH) confirmed 5,831 cases Friday, with 184 deaths - the most (58) occurring in Chatham County.
The US intelligence community concluded China faked their COVID cases in a classified report given to the last week.
“China’s public reporting on cases and deaths is intentionally incomplete,” reports, citing three US officials. “Two of the officials said the report concludes that China’s numbers are fake.”
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International observers blasted WHO for heaping praise on the country at the centre of the deadly outbreak.
WHO echoed China's initial claims the virus could not be transmitted between humans and accepted the regime's statistics seemingly without question.
The claims come as the pandemic reached a grim milestone with the number of people infected worldwide topping one million.
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