Is the peak of the epidemic in the United States approaching or the turning point? Expert: Don't be too optimistic, the number of deaths is still soaring

Source: Overseas Network

Overseas network on January 22, according to the US media reported on the 22nd, the new new crown cases in the United States began to decline, and the wave of epidemic caused by the Omicron variant virus seems to be peaking, or ushering in an inflection point. Still, experts warn against being overly optimistic, as the number of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. is still surging and hospitals in many states are overcrowded.

The New York Times reported on the 22nd that the new new coronavirus cases in the United States began to decline nationwide, and as of the 21st local time, the average daily new case in the United States was about 720,000, down from about 807,000 cases last week.

However, even as the number of cases declines, the threat has not disappeared, with new cases still surging in the western and southern states of the United States, with many hospitals full. The death toll is also surging across the country, averaging more than 2,100 per day.

In New York, the number of deaths announced daily is higher than in the first few months of the pandemic; North Dakota continues to grow in single-day cases, with an average of 4 times the average data at the beginning of January; while the number of hospitalizations in Alabama has roughly doubled in the past two weeks; the average number of new cases per day in Utah has reached 11 times that of a month ago, and the number of hospitalizations has reached a record level; in Kansas, the daily case rate has increased by 50% in the past two weeks, and Governor Kelly said on the 21st that the pressure on hospitals in the state has increased sharply. Healthcare workers and patients have been hit, while the virus continues to spread rapidly in the community.

More Americans are currently hospitalized than at any point in the pandemic, and the case data now available does not include many people who test positive at home. Scientists caution against being overly optimistic about the latest publicly available outbreak data. (Overseas Network Yang Jia)

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