[Epoch Times August 27, 2021](Epoch Times reporter Gao Shan compiled a report) In the United States, although the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 (Chinese Communist Party virus) is still increasing, the rate of increase has begun to slow, especially in the United States. Some of the states most affected by variants of the Delta virus.
According to the National Broadcasting Corporation Financial Channel (CNBC), data from Johns Hopkins University in the United States shows that although in the past week, the number of new infections has risen to the highest level since January , An average of 152,000 cases per day, but in the past two weeks, the growth rate of the number of new infections has slowed greatly. The data shows that the number of new cases has increased by 11% from last week, which is almost only one-third of the seven-day increase two weeks ago.
Dr. Bruce Farber, Director of the Infectious Disease Health Center of Northwell Health in Manhasset, commented that the recent increase in the number of infections and the vaccinated United States The increase in the number of people means that fewer people can be infected by the virus.
He said: “All epidemics will have such a peak. Then as the proportion of the infected and vaccinated population increases, or it may be a combination of these conditions, it will run out of fuel. In the current epidemic situation, The so-called “fuel” is those who have not been vaccinated and have not been infected.”
Throughout the CCP virus epidemic, the United States has repeatedly experienced peaks in the number of infected cases. In April 2020, the average daily number of infected cases reached a peak of about 32,000, and then began to decline. In July 2020, it rose again to a new high of 67,000 cases per day.
In the fall of last year, many people had hoped that the epidemic would be brought under control, because after the Labor Day before the autumn and winter holidays in 2020, the average number of infections per day dropped to around 34,000. But in January 2021, the average daily number of Covid-19 (Chinese Communist virus) infections surged to 251,000.
After the holiday, the number of infected cases dropped sharply. After that, the Alpha variant in the United Kingdom began to push the number of infections in the United States to surge again, and reached an average of 71,000 cases per day in April this year.
In fact, even if the current number of infected cases is approaching a new peak, it may take some time to show up in the local hospital. Hospitalizations and deaths often lag the data on infection cases by several weeks or more. This is because it takes some time for people to feel severely ill after being infected with the virus, and then they need to go to the hospital for emergency care.
Across the United States, the curve of the hospitalization rate of infected persons may have begun to decline. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in the week ending August 23, an average of more than 12,200 Americans were hospitalized due to COVID-19 (the Chinese Communist virus) infection every day. This is an increase of 6.6% over the previous week, but it is smaller than the increase in recent weeks.
On the other hand, the death toll caused by the epidemic is still rising rapidly. According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of Wednesday (August 25), the average daily death toll from the epidemic in the United States exceeded 1,100, an increase of 39% from a week ago. This is mainly due to the rapid increase in the death toll in Florida, Texas, Louisiana and Georgia.
In some states that have experienced the earliest effects of the spread of the Delta variant virus, the number of infections is declining or flattening out.
Prior to being recently surpassed by Mississippi, Louisiana’s adjusted daily number of infections was ahead of the United States for several weeks. The state has now shown some signs of relief. The average number of infected cases in the state on the 7th day was about 4,700, a decrease of 10% from a week ago, and a 20% decrease from the peak of about 5,800 cases 10 days ago.
But Alyson Neel, a spokesperson for the Louisiana Department of Health, pointed out that it is too early to say whether the epidemic has reached its peak in Louisiana.
Although the slowdown in the rate of increase in infections may indicate that the surge in the number of infections in areas where the Delta variant is raging is finally approaching its peak, many states are still facing a large number of hospitalizations and deaths.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, the 139 deaths reported in Louisiana on August 24 were the largest number of deaths in a single day in the state during the CCP virus outbreak.
According to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services, as of Thursday, less than half of the beds in the intensive care unit (ICU) in Louisiana are occupied by Covid patients. The national ratio is 30%.
According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the surge in the epidemic has also placed a burden on the medical systems in Texas and Florida. In Texas and Florida, more than 50% of intensive care unit beds are currently being treated for Covid-19 patients.
Texas has an average of 16,970 infections every day, an increase of 10% from last week. This is lower than the state’s record of more than 23,000 infections per day set in mid-January and shows some signs of remission. But the number of deaths per day in Texas has almost quadrupled this month, reaching an average of 153 per day.
New infections in Florida account for about one-seventh of new cases in the United States. In the past week, the state’s infection level has remained more or less stable, but it still reached the peak of the epidemic. The state stopped reporting daily cases in May. As of last Friday, there were 150,740 new infections in the state, compared with 151,764 in the previous week.
The mayor of Orlando last week asked residents to reduce water use to save resources in response to the recent surge in the number of Covid (Chinese Communist Party virus) hospitalizations.
At the same time, the number of deaths from the epidemic in Florida has climbed to a seven-day high, reaching 1,486 people, which is the highest number of deaths per week after the outbreak in the state.
In Missouri, since the beginning of July, the number of confirmed infections began to surge. The number of daily infections in the past week has dropped by 10%, with an average of about 2,400 cases per day. But at the same time, the state’s death toll is also on the rise, rising by 36% in the past week, with an average of 35 deaths every day.
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