Summary:
- California passes NY in COVID-19 case total
- US pays $2BN for 100M doses of Pfizer-BioNTech vax candidate
- Florida releases latest numbers
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After suffering the biggest single-day jump in deaths since May 29…
…the US has reached yet another disappointing COVID-19 milestone as California’s case tally has officially passed that of New York, meaning the most populous state in the US is now also the state with the biggest COVID-19 outbreak.
According to the AP’s count, California’s confirmed coronavirus cases have hit 409,370, surpassing New York’s total (note: totals differ between different sources). JHU data showed Cali’s Wednesday morning total was 1,200 more than NY’s.
However, New York’s 72,302 death toll is far larger than California’s. In fact, it’s not just larger, it’s 9x larger than California’s tally. NY’s infection rate per 100,000 people is also twice California’s (which is unsurprising since Cali has 2x the population). California is far and away the most populous US state, with nearly 40 million people, while New York has about 19.5 million.
After California and New York, Florida occupies the No. 3 spot with about 370k cases, and Texas comes in 4th with 350k. In other news, Florida has just reported its latest daily COVID-19 tallies.
- FLORIDA COVID-19 CASES RISE 2.6% VS. PREVIOUS 7-DAY AVG. 3.5%
The other piece of major COVID-19-related news from this morning: the US has agreed to pay $2 billion for 100 million doses of an as-yet-unproven COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech.
