Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are decreasing in the United States and have now decreased daily for 25 consecutive days as vaccine distribution continues.
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have already received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, reaching 2.5 percent of the population.
At least one dose of the vaccine was administered to 30,250,964 million people, equivalent to 9.1 percent of the population.
The CDC reports that on Saturday morning, 39,037,964 doses were administered and 59,304,600 doses delivered across the country.
On Saturday, the COVID tracking project reported that there were 84,233 Americans hospitalized with COVID-19.
COVID-19 hospitalizations have now decreased daily for 25 consecutive days, pictured
All states have administered at least 9,000 doses per 100,000 of the population
The Centers for Disease Control announced on Saturday that 8,317,180 Americans have already received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. In the photo, a vaccination in Pittsburgh
This was the third consecutive day that the number of hospitalized patients remained below 90,000.
Before that, there were more than 90,000 COVID-19 patients hospitalized since November 27.
According to data from the Tracking Project, the US reported 113,927 new infections on Saturday and 2,983 new fatalities. Deaths continue to fall after a sharp rise earlier in the year.
Across the country, there were more than 26.8 million Americans infected with coronavirus and 461,242 deaths.
On Saturday, the country’s seven-day average for cases dropped by 5,000, from 125,431 to 120,446.
The seven-day average for deaths remained the same at 3,003 per day.
The number of people hospitalized has now fallen every day since January 14.
In the last three months of 2020, the number of hospitalized patients fell in just 14 days.
In the past eight days, the number of hospitalized patients fell daily by 1,797 on average, from 981 on average in January.
In December, the number of hospitalized patients was increasing daily by an average of 948 patients, and by an average of 1,621 patients throughout November.
This week also marked the second in a row that no state reported a record number of weekly cases of COVID-19.
Virginia was the last to report its biggest weekly cases on January 17, and New York the week before on January 10.
Thirty-six states recorded their biggest weekly cases in November and December 2020.
Only Hawaii has not seen an increase in cases since the summer and last reported the highest number of weekly cases on August 16.
According to data from the Tracking Project, the US reported 113,927 new infections on Saturday and 2,983 new fatalities. Deaths continue to fall after a sharp rise earlier this year
This week also marked the second consecutive year in which no state reported a record number of weekly COVID-19 cases, as illustrated in the graph of the COVID Tracking Project.
According to the CDC, at least 20,598,212 of the doses administered in the US so far have been from Pfizer-BioNTech, while another 18,336,515 doses have been from the Modern vaccine.
Federal data reports that most states have already received between 10,000 and 20,000 doses of a vaccine for every 100,000 people in the state.
Most states have also administered both doses to more than 2,000 people in every 100,000.
Only California, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia managed less than that.
A total of 4,628,962 doses of a vaccine have been administered in long-term care facilities, the agency said.
West Virginia totally vaccinated most people, with 5.6% of its population receiving two doses.
Alaksa has already received the largest amount of doses from the federal government per 100,000 people
According to the CDC, at least 20,598,212 of the doses administered in the US to date have been from Pfizer-BioNTech, while another 18,336,515 doses have been from the Modern vaccine
Alaska comes next with 4.9%, followed by North Dakota and South Dakota with 4.6% and 4.4%, respectively.
Mississippi has the lowest percentage of total vaccination with 1.6%, followed by Alabama (1.7%) and Georgia (1.8%).
California, Nevada and Idaho also fully vaccinated only 1.8% of residents by Saturday.
Alaska is also at the top with the number of people who received at least one, with 14% of residents, followed by West Virginia with 12%.
Iowa is the lowest, at 7.1%.
At least seven percent of residents received at least one dose of the vaccine in all states.
According to CDC data, North Dakota is miles ahead in managing its supply to residents, with 92 percent of shots fired on Saturday.
West Virginia, Utah and New Mexico also managed more than 80% of the supply.
Alaska launched shots at a much slower pace, with only 56% of shots fired.
Massachusetts, California, Kana, Mississippi, Alabama, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania also have less than 60% of the supply received administered to residents.
On Friday, it was revealed that the coronavirus pandemic will drag on for another seven years at the current rate of vaccinations worldwide.
It will take a long time to reach Dr. Anthony Fauci’s estimate for the herd immunity limit of 75% of people inoculated globally, according to Bloomberg’s vaccination calculator.
More than 4.5 million vaccines are being administered per day, for a total of 119.8 million vaccines administered worldwide.
Despite occupying sixth place in the world in terms of the rate of vaccination, the United States is expected to achieve collective immunity just in time for the new year 2022.
But all this depends on the effectiveness of vaccines against variants such as those that emerged in South Africa and Brazil, which seem to decrease the potency of the vaccines.
Nine vaccines are authorized worldwide and at least two variants – those that emerged in South Africa and Brazil – can prevent them.