“All I can say is that we’re in the midst of a hurricane right now,” Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday.
The spike will be fueled by the B.1.1.7 variant, first seen in the United Kingdom, and will arrive in the next six to 14 weeks, Sterholm said.
“Four weeks ago, the B.1.1.7 variant had about 1 to 4% of the virus we were seeing in communities across the country. Today it is 30 to 40%.” “What we’ve seen in Europe, when we’ve marked that 0%, you’ll see an increase in cases.”
Here is what we know about the B.1.1.7 variant
When the U.S. While there are many types of coronavirus circulating in India, experts are particularly concerned about the potential for highly contagious B1.1..7 variants.
To date, the agency has reported more than 2,600 cases of the variable in 46 states, Puerto Rico and Washington DC. About a quarter of these cases are in Florida. But the CDC said it probably does not represent the total number of such cases in the US – but only those cases obtained by analyzing positive samples using genomic sequencing.
Infectious Diseases Specialist and Epidemiologist Dr. Celine Gounder told CNN on Sunday that she was at an emergency meeting to discuss the diversity of a group of experts held the day before Christmas.
“We’ve been looking for him since then.” “Where it has struck in the UK and now in Europe elsewhere has been really devastating. It has increased hospital admissions and mortality rates and is very difficult to control.”
“It’s like we’re running this really long marathon, and we’re 100 yards from the finish line and we sit down and give up,” Gunder said Sunday. “We’re almost there. We need to give ourselves a little more time to get the bulk of the vaccinated population.”
‘It’s not just a matter of personal choice’
On Sunday, Reeves defended his decision, saying it would be an unrealistic goal to try to clear the Covid-19 case completely, and Covid-19 officials were concerned that all was reduced.
“We take a closer look at the number of Mississippians in the ICU, the number of Mississippians on the ventilator, from the point of view of the data admitted to the hospital,” he told CNN. “All these numbers have come down in our state in the last two months,” he told CNN.
The state has tried to save lives “but also to save lives,” Reeves said.
“We have to roll our economy so that individuals can get back to work, and I think that’s very important,” he said.
And even without the mask order, the governor said he recommends and “strongly” encourages residents to wear masks.
Dr. Ashish Zai, dean of Brown University School of Public Health, told ABC that the thing responsible for the states is to replace the mask mandates.
“It’s not just about personal choice, well, it’s like if I were PA and behind the wheel of a car, it’s not just a personal choice that I risk my life, I’ll put others” people’s lives are in danger, “Zay said. .
He added, “When you wear a mask you not only protect yourself, you protect the people around you.”
Less than 10% of Americans have been fully vaccinated
More than 30.6 million people have received two doses, the data show. That’s about 9.2% of the U.S. population.
That means more people in the United States have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, than the 29 million confirmed coronavirus infections so far during the epidemic in the country, according to the latest CDC data.
But officials hope vaccinations will continue in the coming months with the help of increased supply.
“We will have enough vaccines, I think we said for 300 million Americans,” Slavitt said Sunday. “There are 250 million adults in the country right now, and right now, as we know, most adolescents don’t deserve it, and young children don’t deserve it, so that’s high enough for every adult.”
Slavitt added that the vaccine is now moving “very, very fast” from factories to weapons and the country is becoming more efficient in administering doses.
And high school students in the country could be vaccinated through the fall, according to Foki, while younger students will have to wait a little longer.
“Tests are now being conducted to determine safety and comparable immunogenicity in high school students,” Fawcett told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. “We have projected that high school students will probably be able to be vaccinated by the fall fall period, perhaps not the first day but certainly in the early part of the fall of that fall academic period.”
A guide for those who have been fully vaccinated
At a briefing by the White House COVID-19 Response Team on Monday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Valensky released guidelines for safe activities by fully vaccinated people.
His main points were that these people could:
– Visit other vaccinated people indoors without masks or physical distance.
– If unvaccinated people have a lower risk of serious disease, visit indoors with unprotected people from the same family without any masks or physical distance.
– Quarantine and skip the test if you come across someone who is Covid-19 but asymptomatic (or should be monitored for 14 days).
CNN’s Nadia Kaunang, Naomi Thomas, Jane Christensen and Artemis Mustagia contributed to the report.
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