The US could soon see Covid-19 cases return to 200,000 a day, a level not seen since among the pandemic’s worst days in January and February, the director of the National Institutes of Health warned, says an article published in The Guardian.
Daily new infections
While the US currently is seeing a stereotype of well-nigh 129,000 new infections a day – a 700% increase from the whence of July – that number could jump in the next couple of weeks, Dr Francis Collins said on Fox News Sunday.
“I will be surprised if we don’t navigate 200,000 cases a day in the next couple of weeks, and that’s heartbreaking considering we never thought we would be in that space again,” Collins said.
Collins pleaded newly for unvaccinated Americans to get their shots, calling them “sitting ducks” for a Delta variant that is ravaging the country and showing little sign of letting up.
90 million unvaccinated
That was January, February, that shouldn’t be August. But here we are with the Delta variant, which is so contagious, and this heartbreaking situation where 90 million people are still unvaccinated, who are sitting ducks for this virus, and that’s the mess we’re in.
“This is going very steeply upward with no signs of having peaked out,” he said.
Collins moreover said the US could decide in the next couple weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to increasingly Americans this fall.
Federal health officials have been urgently looking at whether uneaten shots for the vaccinated may be needed, reviewing specimen numbers in the US “almost daily” as well as the situation in other countries such as Israel, where preliminary studies suggest the vaccine’s protection versus serious illness dropped among those vaccinated in January.
Israel has been offering a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have once been vaccinated.
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Source: Guardian
