With the rapid spread of the highly contagious variant of the virus delta, the number of new infections in the United States has recently exceeded 100,000 a day, a situation that was so bad six months ago. In turn, the number of deaths has increased by 89% in the last two weeks.
“Actually, we shouldn’t have gotten into this situation,” Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, told ABC this week on Sunday.
“In that sense, yes, we are failing,” Collins said.
He stated that “we would not be in the situation we are in with the growing prevalence of the delta variant if we were more efficient. [pārliecinājuši] everyone “vaccinated.
“Now we are paying a terrible price,” the director of the US National Institutes of Health stressed.
According to data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday, the vaccination process against Covid-19 has been fully completed in 50.1% of the United States population.
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Collins also warned that if children who soon returned to school did not have to wear masks, the virus would spread even more widely.
“It will probably cause outbreaks in schools and children will have to resume distance learning, but we definitely want to prevent that,” the official said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Sunday recommended that children from the age of two should wear masks indoors, including in schools. Children are vaccinated in the United States from the age of 12.
Anthony Fauch, President Biden’s chief health adviser, told NBC’s “Meet The Press” on Sunday that if the delta variant were not brought under control, there would be an increased risk of another new strain of the virus “causing more problems than the delta.” .
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Meanwhile, the organizers of the New Orleans Jazz Festival announced on Sunday that the festival, which was scheduled for October 8-17, has been canceled due to an increase in the number of infections in the country. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the festival was canceled last year as well.
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