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Original title: More than 500,000 new corona deaths in the United States reduced to half-mast
The “USA Today” newspaper front page published on February 22 reported that the cumulative number of deaths from the new crown in the United States exceeded 500,000.
On February 22, New York medical staff sent the patient to a hospital. Xinhua News Agency
According to the Xinhua News Agency, Washington, February 23. Statistics from Johns Hopkins University in the United States on the 22nd show that as of 16:24 on the 22nd Eastern Time (5:24 on the 23rd Beijing Time), the United States has accumulated a Total new deaths per crown: More than 500,000 cases, reaching 50,071 cases, more than the total number of Americans who died on the battlefields of World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War.
The White House held a candlelight ceremony to commemorate the deceased of the new crown. The President of the United States, Biden, his wife and Vice President Harris remained silent in the cold wind.
500 candles lit in the White House
As night fell on the 22nd, 500 white candles were lit on the south porch and stairs on both sides of the White House, shining like tears in the cold wind.
United States President Biden, his wife and Vice President Harris, dressed in black masks and suits, fell silent amid the music of “Strange Grace” performed by the Marine Corps band.
Before the silence, Biden delivered a speech in which he asked the American people to mourn these people who “take their last breath alone.” He said that his death was a “black hole in the chest” of his loved ones. Although the epidemic has lasted a long time, “but we cannot be indifferent to pain … We must resist treating each life as a statistic, a vague concept or news.”
In the afternoon, Biden issued a presidential announcement, ordering all federal buildings and military installations inside and outside the United States to fly at half mast for 5 days to mourn the death of the new crown.
The epidemic is calming down
US officials reported the first confirmed COVID-19 case on January 21, 2020 and the first COVID-19 death on February 29, 2020. Last year, the US epidemic experienced multiple summer surges. , autumn and winter and holiday seasons. The basic indicators of the epidemic have been updated many times.The new WorldRegistry.
Only recently has the epidemic started to show signs of relief, and the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and hospitalizations dropped significantly.
The latest epidemic report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the 19th shows that the current average number of new cases on Day 7 is 77,385, representing a drop of 68.9 % from the record of 249,048 cases established on January 11. The daily increase in the number of hospitalized cases of new crowns fell from the record high of 18,006 cases set on January 5 to 6,076 on February 19. The current average daily increase in deaths on Day 7 is 2708, a 9% decrease from the previous week.
Zhang Zuofeng, vice dean of the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health and distinguished professor of epidemiology, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the recent decline in the number of new cases has a lot to do with the new vaccination crown.
The United States began vaccination on December 14, 2020. The average daily incidence of new crowns on December 14, 2020 was approximately 652 infections per 1 million people, and 9 weeks after vaccination of the new crown, that is , the incidence rate on February 15 of this year was 1 million people. About 257 people were infected, a drop of around 60%.
Mutated Viruses Bring New Challenges
Rochelle Valensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said that while the recent decline in the number of new cases is “encouraging,” it is important to be sober to see that these indicators have decreased since the former “abnormal high”.
At the same time, the recent and rapid spread of the new mutant coronavirus in the United States has also brought new challenges to epidemic prevention and control.
According to the latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as of day 21, there were a total of 1688 cases of new mutated coronavirus infections in the United States, of which 1661 were infected. with the mutated virus found in the UK. 22 were infected with the mutated virus found in South Africa and 5 were infected with the mutated virus found in Brazil.
Zhang Zuofeng said that the current new corona vaccine can provide some protection against mutated virus infection. If mass vaccination can be completed before the mutant virus pandemic to achieve universal immunity, it will not cause a mutant virus pandemic. On the contrary, if the inoculation program is delayed with respect to the development speed of the mutant virus, once the mutant virus evolves into a pandemic, it will bring a great disaster for the prevention and control of the epidemic.
Anthony Fauci——
“This makes time”
According to the Xinhua News Agency, the British website “Guardian” reported on February 21 that as the death toll from new corona pneumonia in the United States approached 500,000, the leading American expert on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, sighed: “This is an era. Doing.”
Fauci said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program on the 21st: “Too bad. This is really scary. This is a long time ago. 102 years have not passed since the 1918 influenza pandemic. Through this situation.”
Fauci also said that in the “decades from now,” people “will continue to talk about this matter, thinking that it is a brand that will mark an epoch in American history. So many people have died of respiratory infections. This is really what we have experienced “. And a terrible situation that he is still going through ”.
Data from the World Health Organization shows that the United States has one of the highest per capita death rates in the world: 148.61 deaths per 100,000 people. The per capita death rate is highest in the UK, Italy and Portugal.
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