The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 13 million on Friday and experts are warning that it could get much worse as more Americans travel and intermingle during the holiday period.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, 13,079,305, Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus since January and over 264,000 have died. Just today alone, there’s a record 194,000 confirmed cases and 1,374 deaths.
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This comes after a number of states across the country saw an increase in positivity rates in November which led to this month being the worst on record since the pandemic began with over 3 million confirmed cases.
The rate of hospitalizations is also at its highest since the start of the pandemic. On Thanksgiving day, the country recorded 90,481 hospitalizations, breaking the record of 89,959 set on Thanksgiving Eve. According to data from the COVID tracking project, the country seems poise to break that record for the third day in a row. 89,934 Americans are currently hospitalized with the coronavirus so far today.
