Even in the U.S., COVID cases are on the rise status Has a high vaccination rate because it is highly infectious Delta variant Infect more people.
According to the data from Johns Hopkins University And through analysis USA Today, The United States has reported an average of 19,455 new COVID-19 cases per day in the past 7 days. The news media said this was an increase of 47.5% over the previous week.
Compared with the previous week, as many as 43 states have reported an increase in COVID cases, including New York, Vermont, and California, all of which have vaccinated at least 62% of adult residents. New York Post Report.
according to NPRCompared to June, the number of new COVID infections in states including Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, and Oklahoma have all doubled.
Dr. David Rubin, director of the Policy Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told NPR that “the emergence of Delta variants will mean that those areas with low vaccination rates are likely to see a significant increase in transmission, possibly even exponential growth.”
Although the number of positive cases of the virus is increasing, Coronavirus disease death Continue to decline. In the last 7 days, their death toll has dropped by 25% to an average of 154, a decrease from 205 in the previous week. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the number of hospitalizations is increasing, with the average number of hospitalizations in the seven days as of Sunday increasing from 1,996 a week ago to 2,507.
The CDC reports that 58.8% of U.S. adults have been fully vaccinated In response to COVID-19, it accounts for more than 152 million people. However, the rate of vaccination has slowed down. The number of vaccines vaccinated every day has dropped from an average of 3 million on April 7 to about 420,000 on July 7. Wall Street Journal Report.
The slowdown in vaccination rates has caused certain parts of the country, especially the South, to experience Low number of vaccinations And high COVID infection rate.
Ajay Sethi, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told the Wall Street Journal: “The launch of the vaccine has always been a race against variants. The Delta variant is by far the most contagious. Some parts of the country have not been vaccinated and mistakenly believe that the pandemic has already occurred. the end.”
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