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- The number of new coronavirus cases topped 120,000 in the US for the first time on Thursday, a new world record for the country.
- America reached the new milestone less than a week after hitting 100,000 COVID-19 daily cases for the first time.
- Experts fear the number of daily cases will continue to rise, as it’s unclear what this new wave's peak will be.
For the third in just a week, America broke the world record of daily coronavirus infections. The country registered over 120,000 infections on Thursday (Johns Hopkins) or over 115,000 cases (Coronavirus App). There is some variance between trackers, with John Hopkins usually delivering a more conservative number. Still, either figure is a new world record, topping Wednesday’s stats by up to 18,000 cases. The country reached the 100,000 milestone on Friday, breaking India’s previous world record that dated back to mid-September. Milestones aside, the increasing number of cases indicates that community transmission is very high, and the actual number of infections is probably significantly higher than the number of confirmed cases. The more people contract the virus, the higher the percentage of them that needs hospitalization, and the higher the number of fatalities.
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