US media: More than half of Americans have at least one new crown infection, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to rise
Overseas Network, January 12. “USA Today” reported on the 11th that according to an analysis of data from Johns Hopkins University, as of Monday (10th), the number of confirmed new crown cases reported in the United States increased by 53% from a week ago. , with an average of more than 750,000 new infections per day. About 27,000 Americans with Covid-19 are hospitalized every day, and more than 1,600 die.
A task force at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimated that as of Jan. 3, 57 percent of Americans had been infected with COVID-19 at least once. The actual number of coronavirus infections in the U.S. may be much higher than currently reported, the report said, because the results of some at-home tests have not been effectively tracked and many asymptomatic patients have not been tested.
The Omicron strain has hit the U.S. hard and quickly over the past month, and several university outbreak prediction models suggest the U.S. wave of Omicron infections may have peaked, with hospitalizations and deaths to follow. increase in the number of people. According to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington School of Medicine, coronavirus infections in the U.S. peaked on January 6. The Consortium of Epidemic Prediction Models at the University of Texas at Austin believes that the peak of the epidemic in the United States is between January 9 and 13.
Because hospitalizations lag infections by about two weeks, the University of Washington team estimates that new hospital admissions in the U.S. will peak on Jan. 25 at about 273,000. Jeffrey Sharman, a professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, believes that the large number of infected patients will impose a huge burden on the US medical system. Lauren Ansel Myers, director of the University of Texas Outbreak Prediction Modeling Consortium, said hospitals often don’t cope well with large numbers of patients. “What we’ve found through previous waves is that during times when hospitals are at or above capacity, patients are not doing well and they’re more likely to die. There’s not enough equipment, not enough medical staff,” Myers said.