According to the survey data of the "USA Today" newspaper, the national death rate of the new crown has reached an average of one death every 65 minutes; 111 people are diagnosed every minute, which is equivalent to one person infected every two seconds.
In Florida, 4,900 people died of the epidemic in August. According to the New York Times, the number of hospitalizations in the state in a single day in the past week has exceeded 16,000, both of which broke the highest record since the outbreak.
A pulmonologist in Tennessee told the New York Times: “I have never seen this before. The virus caused the entire family to collapse and they died one after another.”
The recent surge in confirmed diagnoses has once again flooded the hospital with patients with new coronary pneumonia. Most of the areas where the burden of the medical system is increasing are states with low coverage of the new crown vaccine. According to data from the Federal Department of Health on August 31, the occupancy rates of intensive care units in hospitals in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Texas are all. More than 90%.
The Alabama Hospital Association stated that there are currently 1,621 patients in the state who need to receive intensive care unit treatment, but only 1,537 beds are available, forcing patients to concentrate only in the emergency room or hospital aisle; Association President Don Williamson (Don Williamson) ) Said: "The situation will get worse in the next few days."
The Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stated that people who have not received the new crown vaccine are 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with the disease than those who have been vaccinated; data from the New York Times shows that an average of more than 100,000 people were hospitalized with the disease every day last week. It has not been so high since February this year.
Anthony Fauci, a White House medical consultant and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in an interview with CNN: The problem is that 80 million people in the United States have not been vaccinated. If we can vaccinate those people, we can Reverse this situation.