China Daily Network, September 11, the Associated Press reported on September 9 that the United States, which was originally expected to get rid of the shadow of the new crown pneumonia epidemic this summer, is still firmly clamped under the iron hoof of the new crown virus, and the number of new deaths every day has returned to the level of March.
Affected by the spread of the Delta strain, hospitals in the United States have been overcrowded, the number of child patients has soared to alarming levels, and the number of deaths in some places has even reached the highest level during the entire epidemic. The outbreak has turned schools back into distance learning, and disputes and violence over masks and vaccines have emerged.
According to the report, the number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States has exceeded 650,000. A major forecasting model predicts that by December 1, that number will exceed 750,000.
However, things should not have developed this way in the first place. Six months after the vaccination work in the United States, on July 4, local time, President Biden held a party at the White House to celebrate the United States' liberation from the virus, and others also had high hopes for this "summer of hope". After that, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse.
Dr. Sten Vermund of the Yale School of Public Health in the United States pointed out that the rampant spread of the highly contagious Delta variant, combined with a political and geographical backlash against vaccination, fueled the summer outbreak.
From June to August, the epidemic in the United States deteriorated rapidly. Throughout June, the number of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States was about 400,000. In August, there were 26,800 new deaths in the United States, with more than 4.2 million new confirmed cases. The number of confirmed cases in August was the fourth highest since the outbreak began.
In addition, a new wave of outbreaks brought about by the Delta mutation has caused more deaths among young Americans. In previous waves, people over the age of 75 accounted for the highest proportion of deaths. According to official U.S. data, the highest proportion of age groups today is between 50 and 64 years old.
Some experts point out that there are already signs of correlation before the Delta variant becomes the main virus circulating, and larger gatherings and more relaxed social distancing measures are contributing to the increase in the number of new cases.
"After being locked up for more than a year, everyone figured it out." Dr. David Dowdy, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, said, "But in the face of this dramatic change, even nearly two-thirds of adults are not vaccinated." ”
Although covid-19 vaccines are reportedly very effective in reducing hospitalization and mortality rates, tens of millions of eligible Americans are still not vaccinated.
Source: China Daily