The average daily number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States has reached 700,000.



Daily Washington Post (WP) reported on the 9th (local time) that the daily average number of confirmed cases for a week recorded 705,620, an increase of 78% compared to the previous 7 days.



As a lagging indicator, the number of inpatients rose 32.5% to 138,000, and the death toll rose 5.2% to 1,650.



According to Johns Hopkins University, there were 908,322 new cases and 2,615 deaths on the 8th.



As the number of omicron-mutated infections increased explosively, the cumulative number of patients in the United States was approaching 60 million.



According to Johns Hopkins University, the cumulative number of patients was 59.8 million and the death toll was 830,000.



Los Angeles (LA) County, the most populous county in the United States, has recorded more than 200,000 confirmed cases in the past seven days, the highest number since the coronavirus pandemic.



Health Commissioner Barbara Farrer urged local residents and businesses to continue to comply with public health measures to contain the spread of the virus.



New York State has suspended non-urgent surgeries as hospitalizations have risen due to a surge in new patients.



The New York State Department of Health has ordered more than 40 hospitals to suspend non-essential surgeries for at least two weeks, saying patient capacity has decreased.



Large vaccination centers have re-emerged in some areas.



Early last year, the United States encouraged vaccination by converting large stadiums and indoor facilities into inoculation centers in the early stages of vaccine distribution.



After that, as health policies focused on unvaccinated people, large inoculation centers disappeared, but as the number of confirmed cases exploded due to the spread of omicron mutations and the shortage of medical personnel overlapped, some state governments announced that they would reopen large vaccination centers.



Massachusetts has decided to open a large-scale vaccination site at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, a professional baseball team.



Illinois has decided to open four high-volume clinics to meet growing demand for vaccination, and Oregon has decided to open 10 large-scale vaccination stations.



At the same time, as frontline hospitals, COVID-19 testing centers, and vaccination centers are short of workers, local health authorities are sending the National Guard to the quarantine site one after another.



According to the U.S. Army's Northern Territory Command, 10 states, including eastern New York and Massachusetts, have deployed the National Guard to medical sites.



In addition, the western state of California has decided to send the National Guard to the coronavirus testing station, and Oregon has decided to send the National Guard to front-line hospitals to prepare for an increase in hospitalizations.



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