Since the holiday season, the number of deaths is still significantly high, but there is a decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations
According to health experts, COVID-19 cases are declining, but the vaccine is not the driving force.
They attribute shrinking virus cases to Americans who comply with COVID-19 restrictions. They report that mask wear, social distance and travel reduction are the most important contributing factors, not the vaccine, per CNN.
“It’s encouraging to see these trends slow down, but it’s coming from an extremely high place,” said the CDC’s director. Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday to NBC.
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“If we want to bring our kids back to school, and I believe we all do, it all depends on the amount of communities out there.”
Since the holiday period, the number of deaths is still significantly high, but there has been a decrease in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
“This is what we do right: stay apart, wear masks, do not travel, do not mix indoors with others,” he said. Dr Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The seven-day average of new cases of coronavirus is 90,416, lower than the 250,000 new cases we saw in early January, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The record high of COVID-19 infections was 132,447 on January 6, but as of Sunday, only 67,023 with the infection were admitted to the hospital, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
But despite the decline as a country, we have a way to go. An average of 3,000 daily still lose their lives to the virus.
At this point, more than 14 million Americans have taken both doses of the vaccine, but it takes a few weeks to become effective, and it represents only about 4% of the population.
New variants of the virus are also spreading, so Americans are urged to continue to take precautions.
“We had three increases. Whether we have a fourth boom is up to us, “said Frieden.
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“And the stakes can not be higher – not only in the number of people who could die in the fourth boom, but also in the risk that even more dangerous variants will emerge if there is more uncontrolled distribution.”
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