The number of deaths from the new crown in the United States exceeds the 1918 pandemic

Reference News Network reported on September 22According to a report by TASS News Agency in New York on September 21, data released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States on the 20th showed that the number of deaths from the new crown epidemic in the United States has exceeded 676,000, which is higher than the number of deaths during the Spanish flu period (1918-1919). Number of people.

Data provided by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that the number of deaths caused by the Spanish flu is 675,000. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Spanish flu was the most deadly pandemic in the history of the United States.

According to reports, with the spread of the delta mutant strain, the number of deaths from the new crown in the United States continues to rise, especially in the southeastern states with low vaccination rates. According to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average daily number of confirmed deaths in the past week exceeded 2,000.

According to a report on the website of the British Financial Times on September 20, the number of Americans who died of the new crown has exceeded the number of people who died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918. At the emergence of this terrible milestone, people in the southern and midwestern states of the United States who have not been vaccinated have ushered in a new wave of severe illness and hospitalization.

Experts warn that the spread of this highly contagious delta variant is putting the health systems of the most severely affected states into crisis and threatening the economic recovery of the United States. They said that the ongoing political debate over wearing masks, vaccinations and booster shots has complicated and possibly prolonged the fight against the pandemic.

The Spanish flu is the most serious pandemic in modern history, killing at least 50 million people worldwide.

Ali Muqdad, professor of global health at the University of Washington, said: “Controlling the pandemic depends on two factors: government leadership and public behavior. Compared with other countries, the United States has performed poorly in both areas. ”

The report pointed out that although the United States is in a leading position in obtaining the new crown vaccine, it lags behind other wealthy countries in vaccination.

Experts say that Republican voters are reluctant to get vaccinated, and that some blacks and Hispanics are only slightly better off, and the spread of false information has contributed to this phenomenon. Because only 54.6% of the residents of the country have completed the vaccination, people are very susceptible to infection.

In Idaho, officials warned last week that hospitalized cases of COVID-19, mainly people who have not been vaccinated, have climbed to record levels, causing a shortage of staff, available beds and resources. Only slightly more than 40% of people in Idaho have completed the vaccination, making it one of the states with the lowest vaccination rates in the United States.

Matthew Kretzelius, a nurse in the intensive care unit at a Michigan hospital, said: “It is very frustrating that the hospital’s new crown cases have soared again, and this could have been avoided. We are in intensive care. About 99% of the new crown patients seen in the ward have not been vaccinated…this is the effect of false information.”

According to the report, doctors also felt the pressure and expressed disappointment that politicians and the public failed to take effective measures to deal with the new crown crisis. Jennifer Caputo-Sedler, a doctor who works at Tampa General Hospital in Florida, said: “This wave of epidemic is too difficult because we didn’t have to do it again. The vast majority of patients in the intensive care unit are not vaccinated. .”

Caputo Seidler said that only stronger leadership can reverse the new crown epidemic. She said that some unvaccinated patients have anti-vaccination religious or other personal beliefs, but some people are just confused by all kinds of mixed information. She said: “If everyone sees our leaders unanimously advocate wearing masks and vaccinations, and send a unified message, it will have more influence than each state and each city and town doing their own things.”