As the U.S. reports record levels Coronavirus disease cases As Delta variant The virus is spreading across the country, and medical experts are not sure whether the virus will be eradicated completely.
The new data comes from Johns Hopkins University News released on Tuesday evening indicated that at least 620,226 new positive cases of the virus were reported last week, and it is reported that there is one new COVID case in the United States every second. USA Today.
According to USA Today, this is the largest number of new coronavirus cases recorded since February 14 and the worst since the country reported an average of nearly 3 cases per second in mid-January.
However, since less than half of the country’s population is fully vaccinated and COVID cases are increasing again, experts are not sure whether it is possible to completely stop the spread of the virus.
However, Dr. Francis Collins, Dean of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN On Tuesday, “We can still reach a place that will become a nuisance rather than a threat to your life.”
CNN predicts through its own data analysis of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention data that according to the current vaccination rate, at least one dose of vaccine will not be available until mid-February 2022. Coronavirus disease vaccine For 90 million Americans Not vaccinated.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading infectious disease expert in the United States, hopes to fill the vaccination gap. He told CNN on Tuesday that he hopes the United States will receive 1 million vaccines a day to close the gap.
“When the mission arrives, we may get there, but it can’t reach 250,000 or 500,000 every day, otherwise it will enter the winter smoothly. I want to get there early,” he added.
But the Delta variant is causing alarms because hospital Filling up.More than 50,000 beds are occupied COVID patients – More than three times what it was a month ago, former surgeon Dr. Jerome Adams told Washington post Tuesday.
Adams said: “We are not crying wolves here. The surge we are experiencing now is very likely-and seems to be-the worst surge we have faced so far.”
The hesitation of vaccines exacerbated this problem.But a poll recently released on Tuesday came from Axiom Ipsos The number of Americans showing that it is impossible to get the COVID vaccine has declined.
According to public opinion polls, 15% of Americans say they can’t get vaccinated at all, down from 20% two months ago. This shift may be attributed to the recent surge in Delta variant cases across the United States, accounting for more than 90% of new COVID cases.
Axios-Ipsos said the poll also showed that three-quarters of Americans (78%) are worried about the new Delta variant, and 52% of respondents believe that the risk of returning to activities before COVID is too high.
According to the CDC, 165 million Americans Fully vaccinated against COVID-19, accounting for 49.7% of the US population.
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