US coronavirus: US reports more than 100,000 Covid-19 recordings 40 days in a row

US coronavirus: US reports more than 100,000 Covid-19 recordings 40 days in a row

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“We really need to get this vaccine out faster, because it’s actually our only tool,” said Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, told Face the Nation Sunday on CBS.

On Sunday, 129,229 people were in U.S. hospitals with coronavirus, but the day was only the sixth highest in the history of the pandemic, according to the Covid Tracking Project.

Experts have long said that the best defense against emerging cases is preventative measures such as masks and social distance, as well as widespread vaccination. To date, at least 22.1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines have been distributed and nearly 6.7 million have made their patients into the arms. Health officials had hoped to vaccinate 20 million people at the start of the new year, but the administration of vaccines has been delayed and blocked.

“We have to admit that it does not work,” Gottlieb said of the vaccination plan. “We need to start the reset and adopt a new strategy to get it out to patients.”

Gottlieb’s warning comes days after the US crossed a grim threshold for the first time – and reported more than 4,000 new deaths in Covid-19 on Thursday. Since the pandemic began, more than 374,322 people have died in the U.S. and more than 22.4 million people have been infected, according to Johns Hopkins University data.

More people, websites and online sources for vaccines

As the increase in infections, hospitalization and mortality rates reigns in countries, officials are working to make access to vaccinations easier.

California, a the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, added 49,685 new cases on Sunday alone, bringing the total number of cases in the state since the pandemic began to more than 2.6 million.

As of Monday, the state will increase its deployment of vaccines to include health care workers, nursing home residents and staff, and those living in communal areas such as relief or shelters, according to the new Department of Health guidance. So far, the state’s vaccination efforts have struggled, and only about a third of the more than 2.1 million doses received have made it into the arms of residents.

In New York City, officials are hoping to expand access via vaccination sites. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Sunday that three additional 24/7 vaccination sites will open this week.

Speaking from a site in Bathgate Industrial Park on Sunday, De Blasio said the city was “well under way” by this week to reach 100,000 vaccinations. He said earlier that he hopes to have one million vaccinations by the end of the month.

According to the CDC Covid Data Tracker, the Department of Public Health in Georgia has launched a Covid vaccine detection website in hopes of increasing access to the state that administered the fewest vaccines per capita.

The site does not provide for scheduling, but provides contact information for people to plan vaccinations as soon as they are available, according to the release.

A deadlier pace than 2020

More than 28,400 new deaths in Covid-19 were reported in the first 11 days of 2021, according to data from Johns Hopkins.

At this rate, more people could die from Covid-19 in January than any other month of this pandemic. December had a record high of 77,431 deaths due to Covid-19.

According to Johns Hopkins, the U.S. reported 1,814 new deaths in Covid-19, along with 213,905 new infections.

At this rate, January is the deadliest month of Covid-19 in the US

In hard-hit Arizona, the crisis will get worse, said Joe K. Gerald, associate professor at Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona.

“We can expect to set new records for cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks. Policy action is urgently needed to mitigate the worst possible outcome,” Gerald wrote.

He also expressed concern about ‘the inevitable arrival of the more transmissible’ coronavirus strain that was first detected in the UK and spread to at least eight US states, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.

“If it gathers foothold, it will accelerate, prolong and deepen the Arizona outbreak,” Gerald said.

Riots in Capitol are likely to be a ‘boom’ for Covid-19

The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the recent riot at the U.S. Capitol was likely to be a “training event” that would “likely lead to a significant spread” across the country.
“You largely unmasked people in a non-distancing way, all of whom were through the Capitol,” said Dr. Robert Redfield told the McClatchy newspaper group.

“Then these individuals are now all going home in cars and trains and planes across the country.”

CNN’s medical analyst and emergency physician, Dr. Leana Wen, reflecting the statement and Ana Cabrera told CNN on Sunday: ‘Individuals who have not used masks or social distance are also unlikely to follow these guidelines when returning to their home communities. “

“And it is very likely that they are doing other risky behaviors there and could possibly spread coronavirus all over the country, wherever they come from,” she said. “I hope that everyone who took part in the events will go back and be quarantined and tested.”

CNN’s Holly Yan, Hollie Silverman, Naomi Thomas, Cheri Mossburg, Jenn Selva and Evan McMorris-Santoro contributed to this report.

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