The death toll from COVID-19 in the United States has exceeded 800,000, another grim milestone. The analysis said that it took 111 days for the United States to increase from 600,000 deaths to 700,000, and from 700,000 to 800,000, taking only 73 days, while other countries have lower per capita infection mortality rates in the past 11 months than the United States. At the same time, more Americans are dying in less time, but the country still faces difficulties in vaccination, which will lead to a more difficult situation. Currently, the United States reports more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths every day.
So far, more than 450,000 people in the U.S. have died after contracting COVID-19 in 2021, and this total accounts for 57% of all deaths from the disease in the U.S. since the pandemic began. By November, the number of deaths in the United States in 2021 had exceeded the total in 2020. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government's leading infectious disease officer, stepped up his call on Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 on Sunday.
Fauci warned that the Omicron variant appears to be able to "evade" protection from two doses of the mna-type Covid vaccine as well as post-infection treatment. And as infections in the U.S. begin to surge again, Omicron raises new concerns, and infections are still led by the highly contagious Delta virus variant that has dominated since the summer. But experts worry that the virus's latest variant, TheOmeckon, may prove to be more resistant to vaccines than previous variants.
Fauci said an additional shot of the vaccine could provide "optimal" protection against Omicron, although the government's official "full vaccination" is still two doses of Pfizer or Moderna, or one dose of Johnson & Johnson, which was developed through another method. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, said in an interview with the ABC, "Preliminary data show that when you get a booster ... It increases the level of protection enough against Omicron. ”
"This is another reason to encourage unvaccinated people to get vaccinated, especially those who have been vaccinated, because this reduction in protective effects seems to be happening again," Fauci said. If you want the best protection, you really should get a booster shot. Follow the guidelines of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to wear a mask when you're in an indoor meeting place and you don't know the vaccination status of people around you. Wearing a mask won't last forever, but it can get us out of the very difficult situation we're in right now. ”
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, despite a significant increase in vaccination rates in recent weeks, especially for adjuvant vaccination, about 40 percent of eligible adults in the United States are still underprotected, and the vaccination rate for newly qualified children ages 5 to 11 remains below 20 percent.
For now, experts are still exploring the properties of Omicron. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said last week that very preliminary data so far show that Omicron is relatively mild. Meanwhile, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has defended his new vaccine regulations targeting private-sector employees.
He said on CNN's State of the Union, "Omicron is right here, it's all over the country, and this variant moves very fast." We must move faster. What I've heard from the business community is that their biggest fear is the government shutdown, going back to 2020, restrictions, people losing their livelihoods. The biggest threat to jobs is that the Aumechon and the cold winter will put pressure on the coronavirus and set us back. Since I started implementing the order in August, we have received more than 1 million doses of the vaccine and 71% of the people have been fully vaccinated. ”