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Evolution of the US pandemic exceeds 800,000 deaths from Covid-19
The United States reached one
million positive cases for Covid in a single day
, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, a figure that experts had already anticipated weeks ago and that raises the
average number of infections to 486,658 per day in the last seven days
.
The new peak is almost double that reached last winter, when the situation became untenable in hospitals across the country.
The current panorama in that regard is not so dramatic. The average of the last week is almost 98,000 admitted with a case of coronavirus,
still far from the 137,000 that were reached at the worst moment of last year
, specifically on January 10. They are also less than the 102,967 registered at the peak of the delta variant,
a priori
notably more dangerous than the omicron that is currently setting the course of the pandemic.
Studies and the declining number in the
death
toll
seem to confirm this.
The daily average is 1,276, 3% less in the last two weeks
and far from the 3,000 that were averaged at the beginning of 2021. Those numbers have raised hope that it could be the beginning of the end of the pandemic, with a similar situation in many countries worldwide.
Even so, from Washington they remain
cautious in the face of the unstoppable escalation of cases and the effects it may have
, not only in hospitals but also in the
progress of the economy
.
More than 18,000 flights in the United States have been canceled since December 24, a situation that has affected the tourism and hospitality industry.
The main cause: the lack of personnel due to the effects of omicron and at a speed that left the airlines without reaction capacity. The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicate that from constituting 8% of cases on December 11,
omicron has gone on to represent 95% of cases. positive
. It took less than a month to expand faster than all previous variants.
That same body today authorized the
cut from six months to five the deadline to receive the booster dose of
the vaccine for the general population, in addition to giving
the green light to the third dose for children from 5 to 11 years old with immunodeficiencies
.
In addition, the US Agency for Medicines (FDA) authorized the expansion of the eligibility of the booster dose for youth between 12 and 15 years.
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