US COVID-19 Cases Pass 10 Million

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US COVID-19 Cases Pass 10 Million

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After weeks of surging confirmed cases, the United States total reached 10,005,398, up by 174,503. Deaths rose 1,415 to 240,769. There is a concern that confirmed case rates could hit 200,000 a day, and fatal cases might reach 2,000.

Most of the cases are located in a few large states. These include Texas at 1,011,918 and 19,219 deaths, California at 973,576 and 17,967 deaths, Florida at 843,897 cases and 17,333 deaths, and New York at 530,354 and 33,287

Global cases have just topped 50 million and reached 50,078,292. Global fatal cases total 1,253,311.

After the United States, the countries with the largest numbers of confirmed cases are India at 8,550,881 and 126,624 fatal cases, Brazil with 5,653,648 confirmed cases and 162,305 deaths, and France with 1,787,324 confirmed cases and 40,439 fatal ones.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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