Since the holiday season, the number of deaths is still worryingly high, but there is a decrease in hospitalizations for COVID-19
COVID-19 cases are decreasing, but the vaccine is not the determining factor, according to health experts.
They are attributing the reduction of virus cases to Americans who adhere to the restrictions of COVID-19. They are reporting that mask use, social distance and reduced travel are the main contributing factors, not the vaccine, for CNN.
“It is encouraging to see these trends falling, but they are falling from an extraordinarily high place,” said the Director of the CDC Dr. Rochelle Walensky on Sunday for NBC.
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“Whether we want to take our kids back to school, and I believe we all do, it all depends on how much the community is spread out there.”
Since the holiday season, the number of deaths is still alarmingly high, but there is a reduction in hospitalizations for COVID-19.
“That’s what we’re doing right: staying apart, wearing masks, not traveling, not mixing with other people in the home,” he said Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The seven-day average of new coronavirus cases is 90,416, down from the average of 250,000 new cases we saw in early January, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The record for COVID-19 infections was 132,447 on January 6, but as of Sunday, only 67,023 have been hospitalized with the infection, according to the COVID Screening Project.
But despite the decline as a country, we have a long way to go. An average of 3,000 a day are still losing their lives to the virus.
At this point, more than 14 million Americans have taken both doses of the vaccine, but it takes a few weeks to become effective and that number represents only about 4% of the population.
In addition, new variants of the virus are spreading, so Americans should take precautions.
“We had three outbreaks. Whether or not we have a fourth wave depends on us, ”said Frieden.
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“And what is at stake could not be greater – not only in the number of people who may die in the fourth wave, but also in the risk that even more dangerous variants will arise if there is more uncontrolled spread.”
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