(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) New Coronary Cases Surge in Michigan, U.S. Anti-epidemic Materials Are Shortage Again
China News Agency, New York, December 10th. Michigan health officials said on the 10th that the state's confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia have surged, and the infection rate and hospitalization rate have reached record highs, causing medical supplies, including ventilators, to face a shortage again.
On the same day, Michigan’s Minister of Health and Human Services Elizabeth Hertel said at a press conference that the average number of confirmed cases in the state’s seven-day increase has recently reached the highest level since the outbreak, and those who were hospitalized with the new crown pneumonia virus The number of people continues to increase, and the epidemic situation is developing in an "extremely worrying" direction.
Hertel said that Michigan's medical supplies are once again facing shortages.
At present, the intensive care unit within the state has been saturated, and hospital ventilators are not enough. The state government is applying to the federal government for the use of emergency medical supplies such as ventilators.
According to the "Detroit News" report, on the 8th, the Michigan Department of Health reported a record number of 4,419 hospitalized patients infected with the new crown pneumonia virus.
Due to the rapid increase in the number of critically ill patients, the state urgently needs to supplement 200 ventilators, otherwise it will affect the hospital's treatment work in the next few weeks.
According to the report, last week, the positive rate of the new crown in Michigan soared to 19.6%; on the 9th, the state's first case infected with the Omi Keron strain was confirmed.
Health officials believe that the superposition of these conditions has brought the state's epidemic situation to a "critical" state, and the Christmas and New Year holidays are approaching, and they worry that this wave of epidemics will threaten the operation of the local medical system.
"Our new crown vaccination rate is lagging behind the national level," Hertel said. "About three-quarters of the hospitalized patients infected with new crown pneumonia in Michigan are not vaccinated." On the same day, she once again emphasized the importance of getting the new crown vaccine. And encourage all qualified people to get booster shots as soon as possible.
CNN reported that the number of people in Michigan who are fully vaccinated against the new crown is only about 55.5% of the state’s population, which is lower than the 60.5% national fully vaccinated rate.
Many local medical workers predict that the peak of the epidemic in this state has not yet arrived.
According to data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, the number of confirmed cases of new coronary disease in the United States has recently increased over 100,000 in two months, and the number of deaths is also increasing. The epidemic situation in many states has become severe again. .
As of 1 p.m. local time on December 10, the United States had confirmed more than 49.705 million new crown cases and more than 795,000 deaths.
There are 25 states in the United States that have confirmed cases of Ome Keron strain infection.
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