WASHINGTON, Sept 4 (NNN-Xinhua) — The current seven-day moving average of daily new cases in the United States was over 150,000, up 4.9 percent from the previous week, according to the latest weekly report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The current seven-day moving average was 153,246, which was 123.6 percent higher than the figure observed approximately one year ago and 1,217.0 percent higher than the lowest record on June 18, 2021, said the report.
A total of 39,488,866 COVID-19 cases had been reported as of Wednesday.
The current seven-day daily average of new hospital admissions on Aug 25-31 was 12,156, up 1.7 percent from the previous seven-day average.
The current seven-day moving average of new deaths was 1,047, an increase of 3.7 percent compared with the previous seven-day moving average.
As of Wednesday, a total of 641,725 COVID-19 deaths had been reported in the United States, and as of Thursday, 372.1 million vaccine doses had been administered in the country.
Overall, about 205.9 million people, or 62 percent of the total U.S. population, have received at least one dose of vaccine. About 175 million people, or 52.7 percent of the total U.S. population, have been fully vaccinated.
Meanwhile, a Kansas woman who died in early January 2020 is now listed as the first known person to die with COVID-19 in the United States, according to local media reports.
The death certificate of Lovell “Cookie” Brown, who died on Jan 9, 2020 in Leavenworth, Kansas, was recently amended to say she died from the disease, reported The Mercury News on Thursday.
“Three months ago, Brown’s doctor quietly added ‘COVID 19 PNEUMONIA’ as one of the causes of her death, not only amending her death record but also effectively rewriting the timeline of when the pandemic reached the United States,” said the report.
“Brown’s original death certificate said she’d died only from a stroke and chronic obstructive lung disease. But in May of this year, that changed,” said the report, adding Brown’s family had no idea until this week.
“Why is still a mystery. Her death is now included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s official record of U.S. COVID deaths, but the agency wouldn’t comment further,” it said.
Previously, the first known COVID-19 death in the United States was thought to have occurred on Feb. 6, 2020, in a woman living in San Jose, California. — NNN-XINHUA
