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Wednesday, November 13
The United States Reaches Another New Record With More Than 280,000 New Average COVID-19 Cases
The Omicron variant of coronavirus is spreading rapidly throughout United States , but hospitalization and death rates for Covid remain relatively low.
The average of seven days of COVID cases – 19 exceeded the 280,000 the 19 December, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University tracker.
It is a record number of new cases of coronavirus in the country, the last time the number of cases reached a near peak was in January 2021.
The average number of new cases in seven e days in the United States it had peaked on 11 January with 251, 232, during a catastrophic winter when vaccines were still relatively new. Today, more than 62% of Americans are fully vaccinated.
The increase in cases has been driven by the highly contagious Omicron variant, which became dominant in the United States as of last week.
Public health officials, including Dr. Anthony Fauci and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky , say that the new Omicron variant appears to be less severe than others, but still emphasize the need to follow public health protocols such as vaccinations and wearing masks to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
White House data provided in a briefing on Wednesday shows that the average of seven days of hospitalizations is approximately 9, 000 per day, which represents an increase in the 14% in hospitalizations compared to last week.
However , there was an increase in the 60% in new cases during the same period of time .
Seven-day average of COVID deaths – 19 is down from last week, around 1, 100 deaths per day.
Health authorities say the difference is partly due to Ómicron causing less severe symptoms in those who are vaccinated and especially those who receive a booster dose. .
Despite the apparently lower severity of the Omicron variant, Fauci emphasized the need for people to get vaccinated and receive booster doses.
Because Covid testing have been in short supply, Wednesday’s figures may not yet fully illustrate the havoc caused by the two variants of coronavirus, which have skyrocketed the number of cases and made the worker shortage worse, making It has disrupted the hospitality, medical and travel industries, among others.
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