According to domestic media reports, the weekly average of COVID-19 deaths in the United States has been rising since mid-November last year, reaching nearly 1,700 on January 17. Since the scale of infection in the United States is unprecedented and still rising, the absolute number of susceptible people with severe illness is also rising. According to experts' predictions, if the wave of deaths subsides in mid-March, it will take the lives of 50,000 to 300,000 Americans, and the total number of covid-19 deaths in the United States is likely to exceed 1 million.
This week, the Center for COVID-19 Modeling, co-led by Professor Katriona Shay of Penn State University, predicts that by March 12, 2022, there could be 409,000 to 380,000 cumulative hospitalizations and 54,000 to 304,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States before the Omicron surge subsides.
After such a terrible prediction was made, U.S. experts demanded that all public health measures be mobilized immediately to curb the tide of infection and prevent additional loss of life on such a large scale.
As a result of the Americans' waiting, the Biden administration has provided hundreds of millions of adult N95 masks to the country, which also come from the government's national strategic reserves. According to White House officials, the supplies will be delivered at local pharmacies and medical centers in early February. While in fact, these masks will only meet demand for a day or two, and even funnier, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that the peak of infection will have passed by then. In addition, each U.S. home will receive 4 free kits of test reagents.
Simply put, the recent measures taken by the White House have no intention of stopping the spread of the virus, but mainly propaganda, which is an insult to the people and shows that the Biden administration is indifferent to mass suffering and death.
More than 156,000 people across the U.S. are currently hospitalized for COVID-19, the peak of a pandemic, while cases from the Omiljung variant continue to surge into more remote rural areas. Increasing admissions are forcing hospitals to overload due to staff shortages and sick staff, which inevitably means more deaths are likely to occur.
Mark Lipsich, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of science at the CDC Prediction Center, explained to the media, "As medical professionals tell us, the quality of care begins to decline in places where there is an extreme shortage of manpower and overworked patients." This could also lead to higher mortality. ”
The report also pointed out that even if Omi kerong caused people to suffer from less serious diseases, the absolute exponential increase in the number of cases would have immeasurable consequences in the United States. The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is growing at an average rate of 730,000 per day, and the outbreak caused by Omikerong has also sent more children to hospitals than any previous variant has killed. Jason Salemi, an epidemiologist at the University of South Florida, warns, "There will still be a lot of people dying because of Omicron." ”