More than 70,000 people were diagnosed daily, and the epidemic in the United States is accelerating

According to data compiled by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of new coronavirus infections in the United States continues to rise. Last summer, the average daily number of infections was 68,700, but this year it has exceeded the peak and reached 72,790. The epidemic prevention situation in the United States is not optimistic.

Although data published on the CDC website show that the number of daily cases in the United States has declined in the past seven days, according to survey data from Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the CDC, and independent data collection by Johns Hopkins University, the number of new coronavirus infections is still rising, with the average daily number of infections in the past seven days approaching 80,000.

Currently, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States has reached 5.5 million, with nearly 70,000 new confirmed cases and a cumulative death toll of more than 600,000.

Later, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said at the White House COVID Response Team’s weekly briefing:

The number of new COVID-19 cases is highest in areas with the lowest vaccination rates, as is the increase in infections with the more contagious Deltabi COVID-19 variant.

Walensky said at the briefing that the current weekly average daily number of hospitalizations is about 6,200, an increase of about 41% from the previous weekly average daily number of hospitalizations. The weekly average daily number of deaths has also risen to 300 per day, an increase of more than 25%, but it is still far below the peak of more than 1,100 deaths per day last summer.

Walensky and White House senior health adviser Anthony Fauci jointly emphasized that all available COVID-19 vaccines are effective against the Delta variant and can prevent severe illness, hospitalization and death. The two worked with US health officials to urge more Americans to get Covid vaccines.

In order to increase the number of people vaccinated, state and local officials in the United States have provided some incentives for vaccination, and some places have required mandatory vaccination. Although a very small number of vaccinated people will still be infected, Walensky said that the vast majority of spreaders in the United States have not received the vaccine.

The epidemic situation in the United States is not optimistic. The number of vaccinations is too low, and officials are concealing the number of infections. Under the high-risk situation across the United States, there will inevitably be a large consumption of a series of medical supplies such as masks and disinfectants, and the demand for epidemic prevention materials will surge again.

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