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Original title: Accelerated vaccination progress White House: Half of Americans are fully vaccinated against the new crown
From the Financial Associated Press (Shanghai Editor Xia Junxiong),On Friday local time, White House officials said that half of Americans, including Americans of all ages, have been fully vaccinated against the new crown.
Paul Offit of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pointed out that although it is a milestone, the United States still has a long way to go before the epidemic is over. The highly infectious delta strain continues to spread rapidly, especially in Regions with the lowest vaccination rates.
Jeffrey Zients, the White House’s Coordinator for Covid-19 Response, said on Thursday that in the past week, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and other states with the lowest vaccination rates accounted for about half of the number of new crown cases and hospitalizations, of which one-third of the new crown cases. Appeared in Florida and Texas.
In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis refused to take more restrictive measures despite the fact that the state’s recent new cases are approaching the peak period. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, Florida has reported an average of 15,800 new cases per day in the past seven days, an increase of 51% over the previous week. The state is currently the second most severe state in the United States with daily new cases, second only to Louisiana.
Health experts warned that the new wave of outbreaks may slow the process of ending the new crown epidemic in the United States, especially in the fall, when schools open and employers begin to let employees return to the office.
WHO official Lawrence Gostin said that as the delta strain spreads widely in Florida and other places, more worrying variants may appear in the United States this fall and winter.
Due to the increasing number of cases, more and more companies require employees to be vaccinated. US officials said on Thursday that after seeing the impact of not being vaccinated, some Americans are becoming more motivated to vaccinate.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that in Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, the average daily reported dose of vaccination has more than doubled since the beginning of July.
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