The world's "interconnected society" nature could result in having more outbreaks even if the present outbreak is controlled. This is according to Lawrence Gostin, a professor of public health at Johns Hopkins University.
Since interconnectivity is the nature of the world, both Europe and the United States could face several more waves of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Gostin explained that COVID-19 is just starting through the Subsaharan Africa and then through the Indian subcontinent. In any case that the outbreak grew uncontrolled in these under-developed regions, the novel coronavirus may find its way back again to the US and Europe. This could grow to a third wave and even a fourth wave even among the developed countries.
"Even if the United States and Europe were to get their COVID epidemics under control, if you have got COVID raging in other parts of the world, in this interconnected society it will come back to Europe and the United States," Gostin said in an interview with BBC radio.
Indeed, there are now more than 1 million people in Europe who are infected with the virus. More than 50% of those confirmed cases are in Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. Together, these four European countries made up a quarter of the world's overall infections.
As of Wednesday night, Spain has 180,659 confirmed cases, Italy has 165,155, Germany has 134,753, France has 134,582, and the United Kingdom has 99,489. Also, around 14 more countries recorded more than 10,000 confirmed cases. These figures are from Johns Hopkins University.
With regard to the number of deaths, however, Germany has the lowest number. In fact, the country's ratio between confirmed cases and deaths impressed the world. Germany only has 3,804 deaths as of Wednesday night.
Italy, so far, has the highest recorded deaths in Europe at 21,645. Spain has 18,812 deaths, France has 17,167, the UK has 12,868.
In the US, there are now 637,000 infected people and 28,364 people who died. The country recorded its highest number of COVID-19 deaths on Tuesday at 2,405.
As of April 15, here are the states with 100 confirmed cases of COVID-19:
10,899 deaths New York City New York
1,057 deaths Nassau New York
884 deaths Wayne Michigan
653 deaths Suffolk New York
640 deaths Westchester New York
630 deaths Cook Illinois
608 deaths Bergen New Jersey
590 deaths Essex New Jersey
405 deaths Los Angeles California
392 deaths Oakland Michigan
365 deaths
Fairfield Connecticut
330 deaths Macomb Michigan
312 deaths Hudson New Jersey
312 deaths King Washington
298 deaths Rockland New York
287 deaths Orleans Louisiana
269 deaths Union New Jersey
248 deaths Middlesex New Jersey
247 deaths Jefferson Louisiana
222 deaths Philadelphia Pennsylvania
221 deaths Middlesex Massachusetts
213 deaths Hartford Connecticut
212 deaths Morris New Jersey
195 deaths New Haven Connecticut
182 deaths Passaic New Jersey
178 deaths Orange New York
167 deaths Monmouth New Jersey
166 deaths Ocean New Jersey
155 deaths Marion Indiana
151 deaths Hampden Massachusetts
147 deaths Norfolk Massachusetts
146 deaths Miami-Dade Florida
145 deaths Suffolk Massachusetts
140 deaths Essex Massachusetts
115 deaths Clark Nevada
105 deaths Palm Beach Florida
105 deaths Milwaukee Wisconsin
104 deaths Erie New York
101 deaths Somerset New Jersey
101 deaths Unassigned Virginia
