This is where COVID cases are "building" in the United States, expert warns
Although many states slow down the propagation of coronavirus, these locations will be increased.
WhileMany states have seen cases of COVID In April, others - like many southern states of a pusher in July. And even if it seems that the country now show signs of relief, it is certainly not like that through the Council. In fact, experts already have their eyes to areas where COVID cases seem to be construments and where they believe that the next increase will hit:The West and the Midwest.
"WereSee more Cases Build In the Midwest and the West, "Scott Gottlieb, MD, former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said during a CBS news interview on August 23. And the concern is that if there is a third wave - a third iteration of the national epidemic - it could be more diffuse to spread in a wider part of the Midwest and the West, because the cases build in these regions of the country. And that's what concerns people right now. "
According toThe New York Times,Midwest states that see an increase in new cases Dakota, Iowa, Dakota, Illinois and Kansas are north. And in the west, Hawaii and Wyoming see the two digits increase. Only two MAINE and VERMONT-outside of these regions also consider new cases to increase, theTimes reports.
Despite theConcerns about a third wave striking these areas, GottLieB admitted that the country considers "some signs of good news" because new global daily cases were less than 50,000 over the last seven days. According toThe New York TimesThe average number of new daily cases of the most recent week is 42,310, which is a 22% decrease two weeks ago.
"We find that cases fall across the country, through the sun's belt, where the epidemic was," said Gottlieb, noting that it has resulted in a decrease inThe number of hospitalizations.
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"[Hospitalizations] fell less than forty thousand for the first time for a very long time," said Gottlieb. "And I think we'll see the dead fall below a thousand a day. They have been persistent to more than a thousand a day for almost four weeks." And for more signs of good news, checkThese states began to "transform the tide" on COVID, director of the CDC indicates.
