Coronavirus: U.S death toll hit over 167,000 with 1187 new deaths

At least 1,187 new coronavirus deaths and 53,213 new cases were reported in the United States on Aug. 13. Over the past week, there have been an average of 53,197 cases per day, a decrease of 18 percent from the average two weeks earlier.

As of Friday morning, more than 5,262,000 people in the United States have been infected with the coronavirus and at least 167,100 have died, according to state and local health centers and hospitals

The coronavirus has left no state unscathed. But its impact has been wildly uneven.

In New York and California, the states with the most known cases, more than 1 million people have had the coronavirus. In some less populous states, including Vermont and Hawaii, there are fewer than 5,000 patients. And in a handful of remote counties, there has been not even one positive test.

The nation’s most populous places have all suffered tremendously. In Cook County, Ill., which includes Chicago, more than 4,900 people have died. In Los Angeles County, Calif., at least 208,000 people have had the virus. And in New York City, about one of every 360 residents has died.

But unlike in the early days of the pandemic, it is not so simple to say that big cities have been hit hardest. On a per capita basis, many of the places with the most cases have been small cities and rural communities in the Midwest and South.

And in some Sun Belt cities that were spared the worst of the pandemic in April, case and death numbers have surged to fearsome levels in recent weeks. In the county that includes McAllen, Texas, more than 85 percent of all coronavirus deaths have been announced since the start of July. The Miami, Phoenix and Los Angeles areas averaged more than 2,000 cases per day at their peak.

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