1200000. 00 people worldwide including almost a quarter 1000000 in the United States alone with cases rising in nearly every state right now there are many groups seen record number. We have now. So this is a very serious situation. Worse. According to Johns Hopkins university 43 states reported at least 10 percent more new coven 19 cases on monday compared to last week while the average of daily number of new cases soared 34 percent over the past week while testing has only increased just over 7 percent during that same time period cases and hospitalizations are setting new records all around the country just as the holidays and winter approach dr megan rainey an emergency room doctor at Brown University says we are heading into the very worst of the pandemic right now the degree of spread out. This infection and its toll on our country is going to be to a large extent determined by what happens in the next 2 months while the global number of coven 1000 cases top 15000000 what the us