Coronavirus in the United States: more than a million deaths and a new wave with 90 thousand cases per day

Ang Covid-19 deaths in the United States They exceeded one million on Monday, it was officially announced, amid a new wave of infections that authorities are worried about, especially since many cases are not recorded because they diagnosed with home swabs.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that this tragedy has reached, unthinkable two and a half years agowhen the pandemic began to engulf the world.

The United States is the country where more people are dying from Covid 19 and so on a frightening number: represents a 9/11 magnitude attack per day for 336 days.

And, according to the media, this is roughly equal to the sum of all the deaths the country suffered in the Civil War and the Second World War, or in complete extermination of the cities of Boston and Pittsburgh combined.

The dramatic milestone comes at a time when coronavirus cases are spreading at an alarming rate across the United States, especially in northeast and midwest.

An average of more than 90,000 new cases is now recognized daily in the United States, a 60 percent increase from the past two weeks. And in much of the Northeast and Midwest, daily reports of new cases already exist has already exceeded the peak of the Delta summer variant rise (July/August) last.

Almost Americans already They go back to “normal” without the obligation to wear a mask in restaurants, concerts or public places, even on planes and airports.

home tests

But now there is a sense of alarm that cases are on the rise. Also, while it lacks the deadly gravity of the past, the new peak is probably worse than what was recorded officially because many coronavirus infections are not included in the authorities ’tally.

Most positive results from home trials distributed Free in schools, universities and community centers, so in most cases They were not recorded anywhere.

People feel bad, they take the kit they have stored in the closet and once they receive it by mail at home or at the public center and they try it themselves. If she tests positive, she follows official instructions: she stays isolated for 5 days and checks to see if family members have no symptoms.

Because a large portion of the population is vaccinated, sometimes with up to 4 doses, the discomfort is likely to disappear soon and no need to go to the doctor if there are no complications. So. the case is not registered, not the original or possible infection within the family group. including the unvaccinated the picture worsens.

hospitals are risingang

hospitalization is breeding all over the country, although slower than in new cases. The number of coronavirus patients in U.S. hospitals topped 21,000 in the past week, which is lower than the highest level seen in previous waves, but still up 23 percent from the past two weeks.

The increase should come as no surprise to people, given the large number of unvaccinated Americans, he said New York Times Ajay Sethi, an associate professor of population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The lack of a comprehensive mask mandate “strengthens the public’s desire to move forward,” Drs. Sethi, and added that he was worried a “general apathy” towards avoidance of transmission and disregard for how new variants have become.

10 times higher risk of dying

Those who have not been vaccinated have a 10-fold increased risk of dying of COVID-19 than fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. Two-thirds of Americans are fully vaccinated, and nearly half of them have received at least one booster dose.

But Demand for the vaccine has fallenand the vaccination campaign was plagued by misinformation, mistrust, and political polarization.

The CDC analyzed the characteristics of a million deaths: three out of four deaths were people 65 years of age and older. More men than women died. Whites make up the majority of deaths in general. But blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans had about twice as likely to die of COVID-19 than whites.

Most of the deaths occurred in urban areas, but rural areas, where opposition to masks and vaccines are likely to be high, were also hit hard.

The milestone came more than three months after the U.S. reached 900,000 deaths. President Joe Biden ordered that the flags be lowered to half the staff and that every living person be called a “an irreplaceable loss”. “As a nation, we should not be numb to such pain,” he said in a statement. “To be healed, we must remember.”

Washington, correspondent

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