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Although at least one dose of the vaccine has been administered more than 70% of the adult population in the country, the spread of the supercontagious Delta variant of the coronavirus has caused the United States to once again record record numbers of COVID infections – 19.
The country has registered an average of 100, 000 New COVID Infections – 19 to the day, a landmark that had not been seen since winter. While the US recorded an average of 11, 000 daily cases at the end of June, this figure is now 107, 107.
The seven-day average of new daily deaths also increased, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. In the last two weeks there has been a 270 deaths daily to almost 500 until Friday.
The virus is spreading rapidly among the unvaccinated population , especially in the south of the country, where hospitals are saturated. Florida, the state hardest hit by the pandemic, again registered a new record of cases this Friday (22, 783) and hospitalizations (13, 427 )
In Houston, Texas, some ambulances have had to wait hours to unload patients at Houston-area hospitals because beds were not available .
“ The healthcare system is right now almost at a point of rupture … For the next three weeks or so, I do not see any relief in the emergency departments, ”said Dr. David Persse, health authority of the Department Health Department and Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services, Thursday at The Associated Press news agency.
Ti have to get vaccinated
As soon as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues the complete approval of the vaccine, there will be “an avalanche” of vaccination mandates in companies and schools nationwide, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, told USA Today on Friday.
These are not will be produced at the federal level but will encourage many groups to do so, as has happened so far . “Organizations, companies, universities, schools that have been reluctant to mandates at the local level will feel much safer,” he told the aforementioned media.
A highly contagious variant
According to experts, the delta variant is the most contagious of all known to date and is more than twice as transmissible as the original variant of the coronavirus. Since, according to these, its viral load is much higher, that is, the amount of virus present in the body.
“We have seen through testing that people infected with the delta variant have more virus in their samples than people who had any other subtype of the virus ” Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Southern California told our sister network NBC News . “That is a large part of what is going to explain this higher transmissibility,” he added.
According to a study by Chinese researchers, who still has not been peer reviewed, people infected with this variant had viral loads up to 1, 260 times higher than viral loads of people infected with the original variant
According to an internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this variant spreads as easily as chickenpox and appears to cause one more disease. serious.