On Monday, the United States finally achieved President Joe Biden’s goal of obtaining at least one Coronavirus disease Shooting in the arms of 70% of American adults-a month later, and at the time of a dramatic increase in delta variants, the virus is sweeping hospitals and leading to new mask rules and mandatory vaccinations across the country.
Louisiana has ordered almost everyone, whether vaccinated or not, to wear masks again in all indoor public places including schools and universities. Other cities and states have also taken actions to restore preventive measures in response to the rapid spread of mutations and stubborn resistance. And the crisis triggered. vaccine.
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Dr. Sergio Segarra, Chief Medical Officer of Miami Baptist Hospital, lamented: “As we open wards faster and faster, they are crowded with COVID patients,” Florida Chain The hospital reports that in the past two years, the number of people in the hospital has increased by more than 140%. The number of people hospitalized due to the virus has increased for several weeks. “We discharged them as soon as possible. They came in and were very sick. We started to see the whole family fall down.”
Biden has set a goal of reaching the 70% threshold by July 4. However, this goal was set long before the highly contagious delta variant caused the virus to make a comeback and undermine the assumptions used to arrive at this number.
There were no celebrations at the White House on Monday, and no new goals were set because the government was working hard to overcome public resistance.
The 70% target marks the low end of the government’s initial estimate of what is necessary to achieve herd immunity in the United States, and the delta variant has made this target insufficient.
The United States has yet to achieve another government goal of fully vaccinating 165 million American adults by July 4. There is still a shortfall of 8.5 million.
In the past month, the number of new cases per day in the United States has increased six-fold to an average of close to 80,000, which is the highest level since mid-February. The daily death toll in the past two weeks has risen from an average of 259 to 360. These are still well below the 3,400 deaths and 250,000 cases per day during the worst period of the outbreak in January.
Newly confirmed cases of infection have appeared in some parts of the country, and the number of hospital cases has reached the highest level since the pandemic began a year and a half ago. Almost all deaths and serious diseases now occur in people who have not been vaccinated.
This surge caused the U.S. states and cities to defeat the retreat, and just a few weeks later, the country seems to usher in a near-normal summer.
Health officials in San Francisco and six other Bay Area counties announced on Monday that they will resume requiring everyone-whether vaccinated or not-to wear a mask in public indoor places.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo said that New York City airport and transit workers will have to be vaccinated or tested weekly. He did not force the public to wear masks or vaccinate, saying he did not have the legal authority to do so.
The mayor of Denver said the city will require police, firefighters and certain other municipal employees, as well as staff in schools, nursing homes, hospitals and prisons to be vaccinated.
Regardless of the vaccination situation, public colleges and universities in Minnesota need to wear masks on campus. New Jersey states that workers in state-run nursing homes, mental hospitals and other such institutions must be vaccinated or undergo regular testing.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that nationwide vaccination requirements are “out of the scope of discussion,” but pointed out that employers have the right to take steps they deem appropriate.
In Florida, last summer, the number of hospitalized coronavirus patients jumped from 2,000 to 10,000 in two months. Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, said that this summer, Florida hospitals saw the same growth in just 27 days.
She also pointed out that this time, 96% of COVID-19 patients hospitalized were not vaccinated and were much younger, many of whom were in their 20s and 30s.
Although setting national vaccination goals may help inspire enthusiasm for vaccines, 70% of Americans vaccinated will never be enough to prevent a surge in the unvaccinated population. When he announced the goal, Biden admitted that this was just the first step.
It is the level of vaccination in the community-not the broad national average-that can slow the outbreak or make it flourish. Vaccination rates vary greatly in different regions, and some places are more vulnerable than others.
Vaccination rates in some southern states are much lower than in New England. Vermont has fully vaccinated nearly 78% of adults. Alabama just cracked 43%.
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Associated Press writers Kelli Kennedy of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Michelle Liu of Columbia, South Carolina, contributed to this report.
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