The number of deaths from the consequences of COVID-19 disease in the United States exceeded 170 thousand

The number of deaths among patients with detected coronavirus infection in the United States exceeded 170 thousand people. This was evidenced on August 17 by data from Johns Hopkins University, which collects medical statistics in the country and the world. The United States leads the world in the number of deaths caused by the effects of COVID-19 disease. The most deaths among patients with detected coronavirus infection were recorded in New York State, here there are 32,840. In second place in the number of victims is the state of New Jersey (15,912 deaths), in third the state of California (11,234 deaths). In total, more than 5.4 million cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection were detected in the country, the number of recovered patients amounted to more than 1.8 million people. Earlier, the news agency reported on the number of deaths among patients with confirmed coronavirus infection in the United States per day.