Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a White House press briefing Monday (March 1) that although cases and deaths from the new coronavirus (CCA virus) are now down, it is not Time to lift restrictions on prevention.
“I remain deeply concerned about the potential for a shift in the epidemiological trend of the virus.” “The latest CDC data continue to show that the recent decline in cases has leveled off,” Varensky said, “but the average of new cases in the last seven days is up 2 percent from the average of the previous seven days, and the average of the number of deaths from infection in the last seven days has increased by more than 2 percent. “
Valensky emphasized that “these data prove that the recent decline in the number of infections seems to be starting to stagnate …… stagnating at over 70,000 new cases per day. Based on these new statistics, I’m really concerned about those reports as more states are pulling back on specific public health measures that we recommended to protect people from the virus.”
According to data from the CCP Virus Tracking Project, the number of people hospitalized with the CCP virus has continued to decline since mid-January of this year. The New York Times data show that the number of new infections per day began to decline rapidly beginning in early January.
However, several new mutations of the CCP virus have been identified throughout the United States, including a highly infectious British strain, a Brazilian strain and a South African strain. New research by Pfizer-BioNTech and the University of Texas Medical Branch found that Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine against the British and South African strains does not require a new vaccine to target these mutant strains, but is slightly less effective in immunizing against them.
We cannot accept the figures of 70,000 new infections per day and 2,000 deaths per day,” Valensky added. In this case, if the mutant strains spread, we would completely lose the hard-won foundation of immunity that we have gained.” “So especially in a crowded situation, now is not the time to relax important safeguards that could stop the spread of the virus in communities.”
Varensky encouraged people to continue wearing masks and taking other health precautions, noting, “Vaccination will help us emerge from a viral pandemic.”
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