Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, July 28th, by wire(International Observation) The epidemic returns to the U.S. busy to dump the pot
Xinhua News Agency reporter
The U.S. Government’s Department of Veterans Affairs requested on the 26th that medical staff in the medical system under its jurisdiction must be vaccinated against the new crown. This is the first federal government agency in the United States to force employees to be vaccinated against the new crown. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States show that the number of confirmed cases of new crowns in nearly 90% of the United States is currently on the rise, and key indicators such as newly confirmed cases, hospitalized cases, and deaths have rebounded sharply, causing widespread concern and concern.
Analysts pointed out that the U.S. epidemic is making a comeback, but the U.S. government is still busy pushing blame and hyping the “laboratory leak theory” internationally, trying to frame the blame and shift the contradiction. As Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in the United States, said, in the process of responding to the epidemic, the United States is going in the wrong direction, which is disappointing.
Rebound sharply
According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of the 21st, the United States had an average daily increase of about 40,000 confirmed cases on the 7th, an increase of 46.7% from the previous week; an average daily increase of about 220 deaths on the 7th, an increase of 9.3% from the previous week. In addition, as of the 19th, the average daily increase of hospitalized cases on the 7th was about 3,500, an increase of 32.2% from the previous week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pointed out that the recent sharp rebound in epidemic indicators has a lot to do with the accelerated spread of the highly infectious Delta strain. At present, all newly confirmed cases in the United States are infected with the mutant new coronavirus, among which the delta strain is the dominant one. The confirmed cases caused by it are estimated to account for 83.2% of the newly confirmed cases in the United States recently.
The United States is one of the countries with the most severe COVID-19 pandemic in the world. Its cumulative number of confirmed cases and deaths exceeded 34 million and 610,000 respectively, both of which are “world‘s first.” The US “Time” magazine article believes that the United States is likely to have ushered in a new wave of epidemic rebound. Unlike the previous waves of rebounds, this time the coverage seems to be wider and it is very likely to cause more serious consequences.
Coping badly
Analysts believe that there are multiple reasons for the resurgence of the epidemic in the United States. First, the vaccination rate is insufficient. Recently, while the delta strain has accelerated its spread, the progress of the new crown vaccination in the United States has been slowing down. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, as of the 25th, the number of people receiving at least one dose of the new crown vaccine in the United States is about 188 million, accounting for 56.8% of the total population; the number of people who have completed the vaccination is about 163 million, accounting for 49.1% of the total population.
Fauci said in April this year that at least 70% of the population in the United States must be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity”. Former Director of the U.S. Public Health Service, Jerome Adams, said in an interview with U.S. media that the reason the U.S. epidemic was out of control again was because there were not enough people vaccinated. 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 coronavirus deaths every day.
Secondly, the delta mutant strain is highly infectious and aggressive, but many places in the United States have prematurely relaxed the epidemic prevention measures such as wearing masks in public places and maintaining social distancing, and have erroneously relaxed their vigilance. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued new epidemic prevention guidelines in May and no longer recommends that people who have completed the new crown vaccination must wear masks when participating in indoor and outdoor activities.
Third, the US epidemic is still deeply mired in the “political quagmire.” The serious differences between the US Democratic and Republican parties on the vaccine issue have not been eliminated. In addition, there are too many fake news and conspiracy theories about the new crown vaccine on US social media, which has caused many people to be reluctant to vaccinate. In this regard, “U.S. News and World Report” weekly commented that such a political division is “fatal.”
Busy shaking the pot
In the face of a recurring epidemic, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on the 27th that people who have completed the new crown vaccination still need to wear masks in indoor public places in areas where the epidemic is severely spread. The U.S. government is also continuing to call on the public to be vaccinated against the new crown. Rochelle Volensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, pointed out that the epidemic now mainly occurs in people who have not been vaccinated. Statistics show that almost none of the patients who died of the new coronavirus in the United States in the past 6 weeks have been vaccinated.
At the same time, the White House is still busy responding to false information about the new crown vaccine on American social media. President Biden and other officials recently pointed the finger at Facebook, accusing it of laissez-faire about false information about vaccines on the platform. Facebook responded forcefully, saying that Facebook is not the reason why the Biden administration did not meet the vaccination rate target, implying that the government should not throw off the pot on this issue.
Observers pointed out that what is worthy of vigilance is that as the rebound of the US epidemic becomes more apparent, some US politicians have gone further and further in politicizing the issue of virus traceability in an attempt to shirk responsibility for ineffective response to the epidemic and maintain their own and partisan politics. Self-interest. The international community should be highly vigilant against such attempts by the United States to shed blame and shift contradictions.
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