Latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the strain Omicron dominates almost the entire territory of the United States of America. And despite the fact that when infected with a new variant of COVID-19, the disease is milder, The burden on the US healthcare system has not decreased.
According to the director of the CDC Rochelle Valensky, to date Omicron accounts for about 98% of all U.S. infections. At the same time, two weeks earlier, this strain accounted for 71.3% of cases. This publication reports Bloomberg.
Experts argue that the conditions for a milder course of the disease were created by the increased transmissibility of Omicron and immunity from vaccination. At the same time, scientists say for those who remain unvaccinated or suffer from other health problems, infection with any variant of COVID-19 is a major concern. According to them, the latest figures signal a peak load on a health care system that is already operating at its limit.
University of Maryland School of Public Health Professor Neil Segal emphasized that in many US states, the healthcare system is “crumbling under the weight of COVID patients”. In addition, in places where the peak of the new option began earlier, for example, New York, new records are still being set for the number of cases.
Neil Segal points out that some hospitals in Maryland have moved to crisis standards of care, that is suspended some planned operations and redeployed staff. Hospitals in several other states, including Colorado and Oregon, have announced similar crises.
Due to the current situation, the U.S. health officials are asking the public to be more careful with preventive measures, such as wearing masks, maintaining distance, and vaccination. Also safety protocols are being reinstated in some U.S. cities to try to ease the strain on local hospitals.
According to the portal Worldometers, for the entire duration of the pandemic in the United States 64.3 million people fell ill with coronavirus. Of these, 42.8 million Americans have overcome the disease. At the same time, more than 866 thousand people died from complications of COVID-19.
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Recall, the leading US national expert on infectious diseases, Dr. Anthony Fauci, said that due to the unprecedented rate of transmission of the coronavirus strain Almost everyone is infected with Omicron, but vaccinated people will be in a better position, as they will be able to transfer it more easily.
As reported by OBOZREVATEL, Germany broke the record for the number of new cases of coronavirus per day. The total number of infected people in Germany is 7,661,811.
At the same time, the daily number of cases of coronavirus in Japan on January 12 exceeded 10 thousand – for the first time in more than four months. The country has entered the sixth wave of COVID-19 caused by the Omicron variant.
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