Texas COVID-19 Cases Surge Toward 1 Million

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Texas COVID-19 Cases Surge Toward 1 Million

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COVID-19 has hit Texas harder than any other state, based on the number of confirmed cases. The figure is 973,517 and recently has risen at between 5,000 and 6,000 each day. Yesterday, the rise was 8,588. The state almost certainly will see 1 million confirmed cases by the end of the weekend.

Coronavirus deaths in Texas total 18,722.

The largest contributor to the Texas figures is Harris County, home to Houston. Confirmed cases there number 163,845 and fatal cases are at 2,823.
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Texas is America’s second-largest state by population, at 28,995,881. California has a population of 39,512,223 and has posted 949,383 cases and 17,751 deaths. That confirmed case number puts California second among all states.

The state with the third-highest number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is Florida with 816,700. It has posted 17,099 fatal cases. It is also the nation’s third-largest state based on population, at 21,477,737.

Fourth on the list of confirmed cases, New York State has 518,431. Deaths from the disease stand at 33,198. The death count is higher than all other states because of the brutal and early spread in New York City, which peaked in March and April. New York City’s confirmed case count is 270,317 and deaths stand at 24,021. New York is the nation’s fourth-largest state, based on a population of 19,453,561.

Nationwide, there are 9,490,941 confirmed cases. They have started to rise at the rate of over 80,000 most days. Coronavirus deaths number 236,319 and have started to increase at a daily rate near 1,000.

Globally, confirmed cases sit at 47,442,284 and fatal cases at 1,214,390.

Running second to the United States in confirmed cases, India has 8,314,421. Fatal cases in the world’s second-most populous nation are at 123,662. Third-place Brazil has 5,567,126 confirmed cases and 160,548 fatalities.

California will be the first state to cross the 1 million case mark, but one or two states are likely to follow it.
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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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