According to data released on Wednesday, Covid cases are quickly increasing in the United States as the hazardous Delta form takes hold and vaccines remain stagnant.
Because of a reporting lag following the July 4 holiday weekend, cases attributed to the most recent days may climb much more. According to the CDC, in the two weeks ending July 3, the Delta variation, which is more transmissible than any prior strain, accounted for about 52 percent of infections.
Despite having one of the most fantastic vaccine availability rates of any country, the United States’ immunization program has declined since April. President Joe Biden came close to meeting his objective of getting 70% of individuals vaccinated at least partially by Independence Day, with the current rate of 67 percent.
Over the weekend, a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, ran out of ventilators to treat hospitalized Covid patients, according to local media.
According to the Kansas City Star, the city’s two hospitals were treating 213 COVID-19 patients on Monday, up from 168 on Friday and 31 on May 24.
“In the United States, we’re likely to see two different flavors of the pandemic: one where it’s more of an issue in locations where there’s a high level of unvaccinated people, and the other where it’s more of a problem in places where there’s an increased number of unvaccinated people.
“In other regions of the nation, the pandemic will mostly be treated as a common respiratory virus,” he continued.
Even if Delta becomes the dominant strain, Adalja believes there will be a “decoupling” of hospitalizations and fatalities from growing instances in highly vaccinated areas, as happened in Israel.
“I believe we must increasingly move our attention away from cases and toward hospitalizations since that is what the vaccine was meant to accomplish – to divorce cases from hospitalization,” he added.
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