Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-The continuous surge in the number of new coronary pneumonia cases in the United States is in the “wrong direction”

According to Xinhua News Agency, Washington, July 25 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on the 25th that the number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States is increasing sharply, especially among those who have not been vaccinated. The number of infections is increasing rapidly, and the United States is developing in the “wrong direction.”

In an interview with CNN, Fauci said that currently about half of the population in the United States is still not fully vaccinated, which is a problem for the United States. Most of the recent deaths from new coronary pneumonia in the United States have come from unvaccinated groups.

Fauci said that the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States has actually become an epidemic among unvaccinated groups. “That’s why we are almost begging those who have not been vaccinated to get vaccinated as soon as possible.”

According to CNN, the current epidemic model data shows that if the vaccination rate cannot be increased, the worst situation facing the United States will be 4,000 new coronary pneumonia deaths every day.

Fauci also said that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is weighing whether to amend the recommendations on wearing masks, which requires fully vaccinated groups to wear masks in public.

Recently, core indicators such as new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, hospitalized cases, and deaths in the United States have rebounded severely. The latest weekly epidemic report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of confirmed cases in nearly 90% of the United States is currently on the rise.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the recent serious rebound in epidemic indicators has a lot to do with the accelerated spread of the highly infectious mutant virus, the Delta strain. According to reports, all new confirmed cases in the United States are currently caused by the mutation of the new coronavirus, among which the delta strain is the dominant one. It is estimated that the infections caused by it account for 83.2% of the newly confirmed cases in the United States recently.

While the delta strain is accelerating the spread, the progress of the new crown vaccination in the United States has slowed recently. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, as of the 25th, about 188 million people in the United States have received at least one dose of the new crown vaccine, accounting for 56.8% of the total population; about 163 million people have completed the vaccination, accounting for 49.1% of the total population.