The United States confirmed 820,000 new cases in a week! Fauci: Hospitals may be overcrowded this winter

Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on the 16th that it is expected that in "a few weeks", the Omilon variant will dominate in the United States, and he warned that the hospital may be overcrowded this winter.

▲ On December 1, local time, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said at the White House that the first case of infection with the new mutant virus Omiljung strain appeared in the United States. The picture shows Fauci attending the White House press conference on the same day. Photo by Chen Mengtong, a reporter of China News Service

Fauci added that people who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 — especially those who have been vaccinated with boosters — will be "relatively well protected, at least for severe cases." He said his biggest concern is the unvaccinated.

At an event hosted by the AmCham Foundation, Fauci predicted that the Aumicjong variant "will soon dominate, I think it will be within a few weeks, as we enter January 2022."

He noted that the Delta variant had caused about 120,000 new cases and about 1,000 deaths per day before the widespread spread of Theomexron in the United States, which made the additional stress on the Omilon even worse.

"In addition to the inevitable increase in pain and death, multiple shocks such as influenza, Olmi kerong and Delta during the winter months could overwhelm our hospital system," Fauci said. ”

"As The Opmiqueron continues to spread, the situation could get really bad, especially for unvaccinated people," Fauci said. I believe that those who have been vaccinated and those who have been vaccinated with boosters will be relatively well protected, at least resistant to severe illness. ”

Asked if the business would close again, Fauci said, "It really depends on how well we do with our interventions," such as wearing masks and vaccinatements in indoor public places.

The Biden administration has emphasized that intensifiers are the best strategy for dealing with new variants and dismissed the idea that it would shut down businesses further.

Fauci also said at the event that Omi kerong is by far the most contagious variant of the virus, doubling the number of infections in three days. He added that while there is some early information that it may be less pathogenic, this is not certain.

Experts point out that even if the pathogenicity of Omilon is indeed reduced, it can still lead to a large number of severe diseases due to its super transmission ability.

The World Health Organization reported on the 16th that in the past 7 days, there have been more than 4.18 million new confirmed cases of new coronavirus in the world, of which the United States has the largest number, more than 820,000 cases. According to Reuters, in the month ending the 15th, the number of new confirmed cases in the United States increased by nearly 50%, of which hospitalized patients increased by 40%. According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the cumulative number of confirmed covid-19 cases in the United States has exceeded 50.5 million, and the number of new crown deaths has exceeded 800,000.

Source: China News Network