WILMINGTON, Delaware – As the United States surpassed 10 million confirmed COVID-19 cases Monday, President-elect Joe Biden pleaded with all Americans to wear masks.
The president-elect’s appeal comes as the pandemic data from Johns Hopkins University bore out the alarming fact that in the past two weeks alone, the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus has risen nearly 65%.
In one three day period there were rates of nearly 100,000 new infections per day. According to the data recorded by Johns Hopkins University, the U.S.
now accounts for nearly one-fifth of all of the global infections which are now at 50 million. This amount is greater than any other nation affected by the pandemic.
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