In April 2022, COVID-19 virus tracking
It is recalled that at the end of March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began, President Trump held a White House press conference where his senior advisers presented official COVID-19 death predictions. They pessimistically predict that if we follow reasonable social distancing and other mitigation guidelines, between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans will die from the disease, four times as many as Americans in Vietnam and 80 times as many as those killed in the 9/11 attacks.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump and infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci at the COVID-19 launch in March 2020-03
However, two years later today in April 2022, we all know how this number is progressing. Infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci says we don't have 100,000 or 240,000 deaths. Instead, we are now approaching the death toll of 1 million people. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of Sunday, the total number of deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States was 986,000, with more than 40 Americans dying every day (330 million in the U.S. population in 2022).
While vaccines are available in the United States, and population vaccination rates average about 70 percent, hospitalizations and deaths have fallen a lot from their peak. But efforts to vaccinate children have not progressed, and it poses a new COVID-19 risk. There was a peak of omicron infection in mid-2022-January.
Around the world, new variants of covid-19 are still emerging. Following the Delta variant, the Omicron variant has also far exceeded the U.S. infection highs of mid-January 2022, but a number of subvariates XE, BA.2, BA.2.12, and BA.2.12.1 have emerged. In California, the number of COVID cases is picking up, in part due to the relaxation of indoor mask regulations and vaccine validation requirements.
Changes in the newly confirmed coronavirus variants in the United States over time
The number of deaths in the top ranks in the U.S. states
Worst of all, the U.S. continues to struggle over whether to open or close, how to protect students, to fight for the benefits of immunization, lies continue to spread on social media, and science and health remain meaninglessly politicized.
The United States is still in a mood of contradiction and entanglement, and is very reluctant to lie flat, but in comparison, they are more tired of escaping the new crown virus and want to return to their original lives.
China, can it lie flat? When will I be ready?