The head of the CDC has just published "profoundly" the warning
She is "deeply concerned," she said today.
Withvaccination Efforts in progress, life appears as if it comes back slowly to a normal (new). Children are back at school, restaurants fill up and people are starting to travel once more. However, according to health experts, it is too fast, too early. During Friday White-19 Response Team Briefing, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of Disease and Prevention Control Centers warned that the number of infections and hospitalizations increases through the country. Read to hear what she said about the recentCOVID overvoltage and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
Infections and hospitalizations are on the rise
Dr. Walensky started revealing quite shocking statistics. "The most recent seven-day average is approximately 57,000 cases a day, an increase of 7% of the seven previous days. The seven most recent average of new hospitalizations of about 4,700 per day also represents A slight increase in the previous period of seven previous days.. The average of seven-day death continues to hammer at 1000 death a day, "she revealed.
It is "deeply concerned by this trajectory"
It continued to express its fear that these numbers will continue to increase. "I'm deeply concerned about this trajectory," she said. "We have seen hospital cases and admissions to have historic declines to stagnation, increases. And we know earlier overvoltages that if we do not control things, there is now a real potential of the epidemic curve of go up again. "
She begs people to "take this moment very seriously"
Mr. Walensky hopes that the public will take this recent overvoltage and will act accordingly, especially because we are so close to the finish line. "Please, take this moment very seriously," she said. "We are vaccinated at 2.5 million people a day, and they are protected from Covid. If you have not been vaccinated, your turn is probably very soon. We can turn that, but it will all take us together. Continue wearing your mask well adjusted and taking public health measures now that we know and reverses these regarding trends. "
It traces the variants
"We continue to increase our monitoring of variants," Walensky said. "The 1.7.7 was detected in 51 jurisdictions, by 8,000 cases, we monitor it very closely." With regard to monitoring of sequencing, "it takes some time to make the sequences and, and sequence the variants and do this population-based analysis."
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