These 8 states see the worst surges of Covid

Cases at the national level have now increased at unavised levels since February.

The menshest surge of COVID cases across the United States shows no signs of slowing down. Unfortunately, all but a state saw infections increase during the past week, with hospitalizations and deaths as a result of the prosecution. But the national tip in cases of Covid is particularly difficult insome states where overvoltages jumped considerably in recent days.

According toThe New York Times, the propagation of the variant of very contagious delta brought the national daily average to itsHighest levels since early February, jumping 118% over the last two weeks at 124,470 cases as of August 9th. Some experts pointed out that such a peak - which is largelyaffecting those who are unvaccinatedShould be a prefiguration of what is coming in the fight against the virus.

"I think we arecloser to the beginning that we are at the end [of the pandemic], and it is not because the variant we are looking at now will last as long as "Larry Brilliant, MD, an epidemiologist who was part of the World Health Organization (WHO) team that helped to eradicate smallpox and founder of a pandemic consultation, said CNBC during an interview of August 6 . "Unless we vaccinate everyone in 200 countries, there will always be new variants," he said, while adding that he believes that Covid will evolve in a "virus forever" similar to the flu.

Other experts, such asScott Gottlieb, MD, former Commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), stressed that some behaviors have not been intensive enough to stop thespread delta variant, especially since schools are about to reopen in many parts of the United States, it advocated the use of superior quality masks such as KN95s instead of largely ineffective fabric masks, citing that most people asymptomatic vaccinated can spread the virus to other people during a brief period of time.

"We take a kind of alpha state in a delta world, and it will not work," said Gottlieb during a CNBC appearance, referencing the previously dominant strain in the United States "we are going See that this delta variant is more difficult to control. "

But what places see the worst peaks? Read to discover which states note surge in COVID cases of more than 60% over the last week from August 9, according to data fromThe Washington Post.