“We can’t let our guard down,” said the director of the CDC, who insisted that precautions should remain in office as long as the infections remain high.
First on Sunday, February 14, 2021 at 5. 22 GMT
The daily average of new coronavirus cases in the United States fell below 100,000 for the first time in months, but experts warned Sunday that infections remain the main ones and that precautions to curb the pandemic should remain in place.
The seven-day moving average for new infections well above 200,000 over much of December and increased to around 250,000 in January, according to Johns Hopkins University. That average fell below 100,000 on Friday for the first time since November 4. Saturday.
“We’re still in about 100,000 cases a day,” dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to NBC’s Meet the Press. “We are still between 1,500 and 3,500 deaths per day. The instances are more than twice and a part of what we saw during the summer.
“It’s encouraging to see those trends decrease, but they come from a much higher location. “
He added that the new variants, adding one first detected in the UK that appears to be more communicable and has already been recorded in more than 30 states, will likely result in more cases and more deaths.
“We can’t let our guard down, ” he said. We’ll have to keep wearing masks. We want to continue our existing mitigation measures. And we’ll have to keep emptying ourselves as soon as we get this vaccine. ‘
The United States has recorded more than 27. 5 million cases of viruses and more than 484,000 deaths, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins.
Parents and political leaders eager for their children to return to school across the country for face-to-face learning is taking precautions, Walensky said.
“We will all have to take on the duty to cut the spread of this community, adding masked dresses, so that we can our youth and our society,” he said.
The CDC released third-class Friday describing the mitigation methods needed to reopen schools or keep them open. Some teachers have expressed fear of returning to elegance without being vaccinated, but the rules say it is necessary.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of Joe Biden’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and leading medical advisor, told ABC’s This Week that it would be “optimal” if teachers were vaccinated, but said other measures set out in the 24-page document may risk it.
“In practice, when you balance the benefits of bringing young people back to school with the fact that the dangers are mitigated, if THE CDC’s recommendations and new rules are met, I hope this will alleviate the considerations of both. sides, ” he says.
The CDC, which on Sunday morning, the United States administered 52,884,356 doses of Covid-19 vaccines and delivered 70,057,800 doses.
The figures went for the Modern vaccine and Pfizer/BioNTech, the firm said, adding that another 38,292,270 people won one or more doses, while 14,077,440 people won a one-minute dose. care facilities.