Source: Overseas Network
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According to the "U.S. News and World Report" website on January 28, the new crown mutation strain Ami Kerong is currently sweeping across the United States, resulting in a rising death toll. Some experts predict that the virus will cause more than 1 million deaths in the United States.
Since mid-November, the seven-day rolling average of single-day COVID-19 deaths in the United States has continued to climb, reaching 2,267 on Jan. 27, surpassing its peak of 2,100 in September 2021, when Delta was the main epidemic strain. Today, the more contagious Omilon has become the mainstream transmission of the virus in the United States. "Omiqueron will kill more than a million people in the United States," said Andrew Neumer, a professor of public health at the University of California, Irvine.
Although researchers agree that Omikerong's symptoms are usually milder, and some infected people do not show significant symptoms, it can also be fatal as the flu, especially for people who are older, have other health problems or have not been vaccinated against COVID-19. "Importantly, 'moderate' doesn't mean there aren't problems," CDC Director Rochelle Valensky said at a White House briefing this week.
In a hospital in Kansas alone, 50 COVID-19 patients died this month and more than 200 are being treated. Kansas University Hospital also recently released a video showing the tragic situation in the hospital morgue. Sheila Wright, the hospital's coordinator of deceased affairs, said, "Our concern is, will the funeral home come fast enough[with too many deaths]? If it weren't for the helplessness, we wouldn't want to use refrigerated trucks. ”
Dr. Katie Dennis, an American pathologist in charge of autopsies, noted that in January alone, many morgues were at full or overload almost every day, "Which is absolutely unusual." "At present, more than 878,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, the country with the highest number of COVID-19 deaths in the world.
According to the U.S. health care system, the death toll will grow faster almost everywhere in the next week, although the death toll has already peaked in places like New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland and Alaska. "The death toll and the grief and pain people go through is shocking and shameful," said Reich, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. (Overseas Network Wu Qian)