The number of people infected with the new coronavirus in the United States remains high at more than 700,000 per day, and labor shortages in medical and educational settings are becoming more serious in states where the infection is widespread.
In the United States, the number of infected people reported per day exceeded 1 million at one point, but since mid-January, the number of infected people has started to decrease in areas such as eastern New York, where the spread of the infection was serious.
On the other hand, it continues to increase rapidly in many states in the South, Midwest and West, and according to the CDC = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average weekly number of infected people reported per day as of January 19 is 740,000. Looking at the number of people and the United States as a whole, it is still at a high level.
The number of new hospitalizations is more than 20,000 a day, of which the National Guard is dispatched to reduce the burden on health care workers in western Oregon to support non-medical work.
In southern Texas, the infection has spread in educational settings and the labor shortage of teachers has become serious, and in some cases, parents of students are dealing with it in the classroom.
The CDC has analyzed that the spread of infections continues in various parts of the world and could kill another 61,000 people in the next four weeks, calling for continued infection control.