Original title: Is the peak of the epidemic in the United States approaching or an inflection point?Experts: Don’t be too optimistic
Overseas Network, January 22nd According to US media reports on the 22nd, the number of new cases of new crowns in the United States has begun to decline, and the wave of epidemics caused by the Omicron variant virus seems to be approaching a peak, or ushering in an inflection point. However, experts warned against being too optimistic, as the number of deaths from the new crown in the United States is still surging, and hospitals in many states are overwhelmed.
The New York Times reported on the 22nd that new cases of new crowns in the United States began to decline nationwide. As of the 21st local time, the average daily new cases in the United States were about 720,000, down from about 807,000 last week.
Yet even as the number of cases has dropped, the threat has by no means gone, with new cases surging in western and southern states and many hospitals overflowing. The death toll is also surging across the country, averaging more than 2,100 a day.
In New York, the daily death toll is higher than it was for months at the start of the pandemic; North Dakota’s daily new cases continue to rise, averaging four times what it was in early January; and Alabama’s Hospitalizations have roughly doubled in the past two weeks; Utah’s average daily new case count is 11 times higher than a month ago, and hospitalizations have reached record levels; in Kansas, the daily case rate over the past two weeks It has increased by 50%. Governor Kelly said on the 21st that the pressure on the state’s hospitals has increased sharply, and medical staff and patients have been hit. At the same time, the virus continues to spread rapidly in the community.
More Americans are currently hospitalized than at any point since the pandemic began, and the case data now public doesn’t include the many people who have tested positive at home. Scientists have warned against getting too optimistic about the latest public outbreak data.(Overseas Network Yang Jia)