One-week US Covid-19 case and death totals are higher than ever

The US reported more Covid-19 cases and deaths in the last week than any previous seven days during the pandemic, data showed Friday morning.

And more than 4,080 US coronavirus deaths were reported on Thursday alone -- the most ever reported in a single day during the pandemic and the first time the daily tally rose above 4,000, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) data showed.

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In other words, even though the US is working to distribute vital Covid-19 vaccines -- a process criticized as being too slow -- the pandemic generally isn't showing signs of slowing down, and the virus is advancing with alarming speed in some areas, the White House coronavirus task force said in its report to states this week.

So fast, in fact, there may be a "USA variant that has evolved here" that spreads more easily than the known variant, the task force report said.

"This fall/winter surge has been at nearly twice the rate of rise of cases as the spring and summer surges. This acceleration suggests there may be a USA variant that has evolved here, in addition to the UK variant that is already spreading in our communities and may be 50% more transmissible," the report said.

So far, there's no evidence of a US variant, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and academic researchers said Friday.

"Significant continued deterioration, from California across the Sunbelt and up into the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Northeast, despite low testing rates during the holidays, suggests aggressive community spread," the task force report said.

In California alone, more than 1,000 Covid-19 deaths were reported in just the last two days.

In Los Angeles County, where some ambulance crews have been reported to wait for hours with their patients outside hospitals because the facilities are overwhelmed, one person is dying of Covid-19 on an average of every eight minutes, officials said.

"We're seeing heroes in our hospitals, we're seeing angels in our ambulances, stretched thin to just deal with the onslaught right now," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday.

Every 8 minutes, someone in Los Angeles County dies from Covid-19

Texas reported record-high Covid-19 hospitalizations statewide for the fifth day in a row Thursday. Hospitals in Dallas County -- the state's second largest county -- had just 13 adult ICU beds available on Wednesday, County Judge Clay Jenkins said in a tweet.

The US has averaged about 228,400 Covid-19 cases a day over the last week as of Thursday -- an all-time high, and more than 3.4 times a summertime peak set in late July, JHU data shows.

And the country has averaged 2,764 deaths a day over the last week -- the highest figure of the pandemic, according to JHU data.

Hospitalizations also are soaring. Some 132,370 Covid-19 patients were in US hospitals on Thursday -- the second-highest figure recorded, the Covid Tracking Project data show.

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No evidence yet of new US variant, CDC and researchers say

White House task force says there could be a fast-spreading 'USA variant' of coronavirus

The White House task force called for "aggressive mitigation" efforts because of the possible variant, including the use of face masks and immediate vaccination of as many people as possible.

"Without uniform implementation of effective face masking (two or three ply and well-fitting) and strict social distancing, epidemics could quickly worsen as these variants spread and become predominant," the task force said.

But a CDC spokesman said that "researchers have been monitoring US strains since the pandemic began, including 5,700 samples collected in November and December. To date, neither researchers nor analysts at CDC have seen the emergence of a particular variant in the United States" like those identified in the UK and in South Africa

Trevor Bedford of the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who helps maintain a database of genetic mutations in the coronavirus, said he saw no evidence of a homegrown US strain that is spreading more aggressively.

"We don't see any indication of a particular lineage or variant contributing to an outsized number of cases in the fall/winter US epidemic," Bedford said.

Biden intends to release nearly all available vaccine doses