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The sub-mutation of Omicron is spreading again in the United States, which suffered from Corona.

However, the exact number of confirmed cases per day is not accurately counted.

It has also been claimed that the actual number is about seven times higher than the number calculated by the US authorities.



Correspondent Kim Jong-won of New York will tell you about the Corona situation in the United States.



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The United States has virtually returned to its pre-COVID state after the Omicron pandemic passed last winter.



According to the CDC statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average number of new confirmed cases per day for a week has been maintained at 90 to 100,000 since May.



The New York Times count is similar, with the number of confirmed cases increasing only 8% in the last two weeks.



Although BA.5, which is highly contagious, has become the dominant species, the number of confirmed cases has not increased significantly as expected.



However, the number of hospitalized patients has increased by 18% in the past two weeks, and it is growing faster than the rate of increase in new cases.



Based on these data, the University of Washington Medical School estimated that the actual number of infected people would be about 7 times higher than the officially counted number of confirmed cases.



The spread of home test kits has significantly increased the number of self-testers that are not officially counted.



[Rob Davidson/Doctor: In the current self-reporting method, even if the self-test is positive, it is not revealed.

As a result, it is not reflected in the data.

The actual number of infected people is certainly much higher than the official figure.]



If this estimate is correct, the actual number of infected people would exceed 700,000, which is close to the 800,000 daily average new cases peak during the Omicron pandemic. no see.



A mutant virus, which is more contagious than ever, is spreading, but as the number of actual cases remains unknown, concerns are growing that the United States is left unprotected for another large-scale outbreak that could strike this fall. .



(Video coverage: Lee Sang-wook, Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)



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