COVID death rising
Many areas of the US like a ravaged kingdom
More Americans are dying from coronavirus nationwide as the pandemic rages in the southern and western parts of the country, statistics show.
More than 134,600 people in the US have died of COVID-19, a figure that has increased over the past two weeks.
Twenty-seven states, including Florida, Texas, California and Arizona, have seen a rise in fatalities. There were 802 deaths Friday alone, according to a report.
In New York, the pandemic remained under control with the lowest average deaths and hospitalizations since midMarch, Gov. Cuomo said Saturday.
In the past three days, COVID-19 deaths statewide were in the single digits, with just six reported Friday, and hospitalizations fell to below 800 for the first time since March 18, said Cuomo.
In California, 8,000 state prisoners with nonviolent rap sheets and less than a year remaining on their sentences are set to be released in a bid to slow the virus’ spread, officials said.
In Texas, a 30-something patient who had attended a “COVID party” made a chilling confession before dying of coronavirus, a doctor said.
“Just before the patient died, they looked at their nurse and said, ‘I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not,’ ” Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer of Methodist Healthcare in San Antonio, told NBC.
In Florida, Disney World reopened after nearly four months, although cases in the Sunshine State have surged, with more than 10,000 new ones and 95 deaths reported on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon claimed in an interview that the world would soon have confirmation that the coronavirus was created in, and released from, a Chinese lab.
Without providing any evidence, Bannon told the Daily Mail that scientists from Wuhan had defected and had “come to the West and are turning over evidence of the culpability of the Chinese Communist Party. I think people are going to be shocked.”