(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) "Late" in the past month, the one-dose vaccination rate of the U.S. adult population reaches 70%
China News Agency, Washington, August 2 (Reporter Chen Mengtong) 29 days after being "late", the new crown vaccination rate of the US adult population finally reached the epidemic prevention target set by President Biden earlier.
On July 30, local time, citizens of New York State, the United States, wore masks while shopping in a supermarket on Long Island.
A few days ago, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its mask policy, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated with the new crown vaccine still need to wear masks indoors in high-risk areas.
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In early May of this year, Biden announced that he hoped that 70% of adults would receive at least one dose of the new crown vaccine before Independence Day on July 4.
However, this goal was not achieved due to the sharp slowdown in the rate of vaccination in the United States in June.
At the same time, with the influence of factors such as summer "retaliatory" travel and the accelerated spread of the delta strain of the new crown mutant virus, the core indicators of the recent epidemic in the United States have rebounded severely.
On July 30, the number of newly diagnosed cases in the United States exceeded 100,000, creating the highest single-day increase since February 7 this year.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the 2nd, the cumulative number of confirmed new crowns in the United States exceeded 35.12 million, and the number of deaths reached 613,000.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the Delta strain will continue to become the dominant new coronavirus in the United States, and its infections are expected to account for 82.2% of the newly confirmed cases in the United States recently.
The White House's Coordinator for the Coordinator of the New Crown Epidemic, Zientz, said at an epidemic press conference held on the 2nd that he was concerned about the continued increase in infections caused by the delta strain.
"These cases are concentrated in communities with low vaccination rates. In fact, the seven states with the lowest vaccination rates account for only 8.5% of the U.S. population, but they account for more than 17% of the number of new cases in the United States."
The vaccination rate of the states in the United States is currently showing a "high in the north and low in the south" gap.
According to the "Washington Post" statistics, the one-dose vaccination rate in northern Vermont has reached 75.7% of the state's population, while southern Mississippi has only 39.8%.
Zienz also pointed out that in the past week, one-third of the new confirmed cases in the United States appeared in Florida and Texas.
According to a report from a chain medical center in Florida, in the past two weeks, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the center has increased by more than 140%.
Mary Mayhew, president of the Florida Hospital Association, pointed out that 96% of the recently hospitalized patients with COVID-19 have not been vaccinated, and many of them are young people in their 20s and 30s.
In the face of a rebound of the epidemic, many places including Washington, the capital of the United States, San Francisco, California, and many other places announced the re-implementation of the indoor "mask order".
New York State, Denver City and other places require public transportation department employees, police, firefighters and other front-line workers to be vaccinated.
When introducing the characteristics of the Delta strain, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on the 2nd that the strain is more than twice as infectious as the original strain.
"If you are infected with the delta strain, you may infect 5 other people who have not been vaccinated." Not only that, infection with the delta strain will result in a higher viral load, and this phenomenon also occurs in a small number of people who have been vaccinated. "Breakthrough infection cases" of the vaccine.
Facing the delta strain, Varensky emphasized that vaccination and wearing masks are still the most effective methods of epidemic prevention.
"Vaccines can prevent severe illness, hospitalization and deaths. Masks can protect you and your family. If you are in a high-risk area, regardless of whether you are vaccinated or not, please wear a mask in indoor public places." (End)