The American epidemic surged in spring

The American epidemic surged in spring.American epidemiologists recently warned that the United States is facing the invasion of mutated SARS-CoV-2, which may lead to a surge in newly confirmed cases of pneumonia in COVID-19. The prediction results of the latest epidemic model released by the Institute of Health Statistics Evaluation of the University of Washington, USA, show that there may be a “surge in spring”. According to the statistics of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of February 2, 546 cases of variant SARS-CoV-2 were confirmed in the United States, affecting at least 33 States. Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, pointed out: “The spread of multiple variant SARS-CoV-2 in the United States may cause the confirmed cases to surge again in the next 6 to 14 weeks.” According to the statistics released by Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of the morning of February 3, Eastern Time, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of pneumonia in COVID-19 in the United States exceeded 26.43 million, and the cumulative number of deaths was close to 447,000. According to CNN, the United States reported more than 95,000 deaths from COVID-19 pneumonia in January, the highest month since the outbreak.

At the same time, the number of new cases per day has steadily declined in the past three weeks, and the number of hospitalized cases has dropped below 100,000 for the first time since December 1 last year. According to The New York Times, the number of deaths in the United States is still running at a high level. As of February 2, the average number of deaths from COVID-19 pneumonia in the past seven days in the United States increased by 3,062, only slightly lower than the highest record on January 12. Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, explained that if the number of new cases cannot continue to decline, the number of deaths will remain high in a few weeks. American states are stepping up vaccination. According to the website data of CDC, as of February 1, about 26 million people in the United States have been vaccinated with at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and about 5.9 million of them have been vaccinated with two doses. A report by the Associated Press shows that there is a racial gap in vaccination in COVID-19 in the United States, and the proportion of African-Americans and Hispanics who are vaccinated is lower than their proportion in the total population of the United States. In Maryland, for example, African-Americans account for 30% of the total population, 40% of medical staff, but only 16% of those who have been vaccinated.