More than 1 million people have died in the United States after being infected with the new coronavirus.
While society is normalizing, there is no prospect of a budget for strengthening infection control, and the Biden administration is seeking approval from Congress to secure vaccines and remedies.
According to a summary by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, more than one million people died of infection with the new coronavirus in the United States on the 17th.
The first reported deaths in the United States were in February 2020, and in the two years and three months since then, more than one million people have died, and around 300 people are still reported daily. ..
In the United States, the spread of Omicron strain has passed its peak, and the obligation to wear masks in public places has been abolished in all states. The number of infected people and hospitalized people is increasing due to the expansion of "2", and it has been pointed out that the wave of infection may come again.
The Biden administration wants to take further measures such as a second booster vaccination for people aged 50 and over and an increase in the supply of therapeutic drugs, but the confrontation between the ruling and opposition parties in the parliament is expected to enact a budget plan. not.
There is also concern that vaccines and medicines will not be available for the next wave of infection, and we are asking Congress to approve the budget.
The emergence of new mutant viruses and the handling of sequelae continue to be an issue.
"Each person had a life"
There is a monument lined with stones bearing the names of more than 3,000 people who died on a farm in New Jersey, eastern United States, in an attempt to connect the memories of families who died from the new coronavirus.
The first monument was built by Lima Saman, who lives near the farm.
She mourned her younger brother Lami, who died of a new coronavirus infection two years ago, and last year she made a heart-shaped monument to her stones.
After that, when I was contacted by a person who lost his family and friends due to the new coronavirus through social media etc., I was arranging stones with the name of the person who died, but when I visited the site myself and wrote the name of the person who died There are many people who leave the stones, and now there are stones with the names of more than 3000 people.
Saman said, "When my brother died, there were still 80,000 Americans dead. One million is a very unacceptable number. Dead are not just numbers. Individual names are written. There was a life for each and every one of us. "
Saman was infected with herself last year, and for over a year she has been suffering from asthma-like symptoms and what appears to be sequelae such as taste and smell disorders and malaise.
"Some people in society deny infection control, such as wearing masks and avoiding crowds, and don't understand that they endanger others. America is a free and prosperous country, I think one million dead have proved that there is still much to be improved. We must take what has happened in the last two years and prevent the same from happening. " I did.