The United States now averages about 3.1 million vaccinations per day against the Chinese communist virus (Neocoronavirus), White House officials said Monday (April 5). According to the latest data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of confirmed cases of infection per day has increased by 7 percent to an average of about 64,000 cases.
At a White House outbreak briefing on Monday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky also noted a 3 percent increase in the number of hospital admissions per day for CDC virus infections, averaging about 4,970, FoxNews.com reported. Although she also noted a decrease in the number of deaths per day, which totaled about 800 per day. However, she expressed concern about the spike in the number of confirmed cases of infection and hospitalizations among the younger population.
“The trend in the data suggests that the number of confirmed cases of infection is increasing nationwide, and we’re seeing that happen primarily in young people,” Varensky said. “That’s why you hear my concerns so clearly. We know that some of these increases are due to more infectious variants, and we’re monitoring that closely. And, as more and more schools reopen, it becomes even more important to make sure they are following strict CDC guidance to do so safely, and all of us should ‘roll up our sleeves’ as soon as possible.”
She noted that there have been “many shifts in the population of confirmed cases,” including the transmissibility of the B.1.1.7 variant and an increase in vaccination rates among the older population.
The agency has learned that many outbreaks of infection among “young people” are associated with youth sports and extracurricular activities, and has called for strong testing measures to prevent infection in that group, Walensky said.
She also detailed the CDC’s newly released guidelines for cleaning and disinfecting facilities and homes to “reflect scientific research on the spread of the virus.
Valensky said, “People can become infected with the CDC virus through contact with contaminated surfaces, but evidence suggests that the risk of this route of transmission is actually very low.”
The CDC now recommends that in most cases, frequent cleaning of object surfaces with soap and detergent should be sufficient to reduce the risk of CCA virus transmission. And in indoor environments, homes and schools, disinfection measures should be taken when a suspected or confirmed case of CCLV has occurred within the past 24 hours.
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