The chief medical officer of the United States said on Sunday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Covid-19 situation in the country in the fall.
“I’m worried about what lies ahead, because we are seeing an increase in new cases, especially in unvaccinated people,” Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNN. However, “millions of people are still not vaccinated in this country”, added on ABC the chief medical officer who, as such, is one of the spokespersons of the American government on the questions of public health. Referring to the peaks of contaminations in southern states, such as Arkansas or Missouri, where reluctance to the vaccine is stronger, he felt that they could not be changed if people did not agree to receive the injections. .
Dr. Murthy has also defended the return of the obligation to wear the mask indoors in Los Angeles, effective since Sunday. No other US city has yet reinstated such an obligation, but the chief medical officer expects others to follow suit, in the face of the resurgence of Covid-19 cases due in large part to the Delta variant. “In areas where there are low proportions of people vaccinated, or where the number of cases is increasing, it is very reasonable for counties to take mitigating measures like the mask-wearing rules that you see at Los Angeles, ”Vivek Murthy told ABC.
After several months of declining the spread of Covid-19, the number of cases in the United States has increased dramatically by 135% in the past two weeks, as the vaccination campaign has slowed down significantly.
“We are starting to witness a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” regretted Friday Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
Over the past seven days, the United States has recorded 29,600 new cases daily and 238 deaths on average.
“Unvaccinated people represent almost all hospitalizations and deaths,” noted Jeff Zients, the coordinator of the pandemic response to the White House.
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The chief medical officer of the United States said on Sunday that he was “deeply concerned” about the Covid-19 situation in the country in the fall. “I’m worried about what lies ahead, because we are seeing an increase in new cases, especially in unvaccinated people,” Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNN. However, “millions of people are still not vaccinated in this country”, …
