【Not to be missed】Summary of practical information on May 4
According to NBC News, as of Wednesday, 1 million people had died from covid-19 in the United States. This figure, once unimaginable, is now a cold reality.
On Tuesday, as the highly contagious Omicron subtype spread rapidly, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in New York State exceeded 2,000 for the first time since the end of February, nearly tripling in a single month. Official figures show that the Finger Lakes district, which has an average 7-day hospitalization rate of 27.86 per 100,000 people, has been driven by official data. New York City's COVID-19 hospitalization rate is also the highest since early March, averaging 5.7 per 100,000 people per week.
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation's COVID-19 Vaccine Surveillance survey, only 18% of parents in children under the age of 5 are eager to vaccinate their children. 38% of parents said they intended to wait and see how well the other children were vaccinated. 27% of parents said they would never vaccinate their children, and 11% said they would, but only if vaccinations were mandatory. More than half of parents of children under the age of 5 said they had not read enough information to help them understand the safety and efficacy of vaccinations for children in that age group. Of the parents in the 12- to 17-year-old age group, 56 percent said they had vaccinated their child, and 31 percent said they would never. For parents whose children are between the ages of 5 and 11, 39 percent of parents say their child has been vaccinated, 32 percent say they won't, and 13 percent say they will take a wait-and-see approach.
A new study suggests that severe COVID-19 may cause cognitive impairment in patients to the extent equivalent of aging by 20 years. According to a study recently published in the journal "eClinicalMedicine", a sub-journal of The Lancet, experts found that about one-third of patients who developed "long-term COVID-19" symptoms after hospitalization felt complete recovery after one year, but most patients had little improvement in physical function and cognitive impairment.
The World Health Organization said on the 4th that despite the emergence of new variants of the new coronavirus in South Africa and the United States, the new crown vaccine has a significant effect in preventing severe illness and death, and WHO still recommends that the public be vaccinated in time.