The U.S. now has an average of 100,000 new Coronavirus disease The daily number of infections, returning to the last milestone that occurred during the winter surge, is another bleak reminder to remind people Incremental variant It has spread all over the country.
In late June, there were an average of approximately 11,000 cases per day in the United States. Now the number is 107,143.
Florida has more than 21,000 new infections every day, breaking the daily record of COVID-19 cases
It took the United States about 9 months to break the average number of cases of 100,000 in November, and then peaked at about 250,000 in early January. Although more than 70% of the adult population has been vaccinated, the number of cases bottomed out in June, but it will take about six weeks to return to more than 100,000.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the 7-day average of the number of new deaths per day has also increased. As of Friday, the death toll in the past two weeks has risen from approximately 270 to nearly 500 per day.
The virus is spreading rapidly among unvaccinated people, especially in the south where hospitals are already crowded with patients.
Health officials worry that if more Americans do not receive the vaccine, cases will continue to soar.
Rochelle Valence, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said on CNN this week: “Our model shows that if we don’t (vaccinate people), we may be infected with up to hundreds of thousands of cases every day, similar to The surge in early January.”.
The number of Americans hospitalized by the virus has also soared, and the situation has become so bad that many hospitals are scrambling to find beds for patients in remote areas.
Houston officials said that the latest wave of COVID-19 cases is pushing the local healthcare system to a “critical point”, causing some patients to be transferred out of the city for medical care, including those who had to undergo treatment to North Dakota. .
Dr. David Perce, the health director and EMS medical director of the Houston Department of Health, said that because there are no beds, some ambulances wait for hours at the Houston Regional Hospital to unload patients. Persse said he is concerned that this will lead to longer response times to 911 medical calls.
“The current healthcare system is almost at a point of collapse… For the next three weeks or so, I don’t think there is any relief in the emergency department,” Percy said on Thursday.
Last weekend, a patient in Houston had to be transferred to North Dakota for medical care. On Thursday, an 11-month-old girl with COVID-19 and epileptic seizures must be transported from Houston to a Temple hospital 170 miles (274 kilometers) away.
Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced on Friday that in Missouri, 30 ambulances and more than 60 medical staff will be stationed across the state to help transport COVID-19 patients to other areas if nearby The hospital is overcrowded and cannot accept them.
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