Any optimistic estimate of the New Coronavirus Epidemic can hardly face the grim reality. On the one-year anniversary of the first death of the new coronavirus in the United States, the number of deaths from the new coronavirus nationwide exceeded 500,000 on Feb. 21, bringing the total number of infected cases to more than 28 million. Experts believe that by the end of May, another 90,000 people may die from the disease. The United States chief anti-epidemic expert Fauci (Anthony Fauci) said that by 2022 Americans still have to wear masks.
According to the Associated Press, the New York Times, NBC and other media reports, the United States last February in California Santa Clara (Santa Clara), the first case of new coronavirus deaths a year later, the number of new coronavirus deaths across the United States on February 21 this year has exceeded 500,000 people, close to the capital of California Sacramento (Sacramento) or the capital of Georgia Atlanta (Atlanta ) population, equivalent to the number of American deaths in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Walensky (Rochelle Walensky) said in an interview with NBC on the 21st: “We are still adding nearly 100,000 confirmed cases a day, and the number of deaths per day is between 1,500 and 3,500, a number that is more than 2.5 times last summer.
Fauci, the chief anti-epidemic expert and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said of the 500,000 deaths, “That is a truly horrific situation, and Americans may have to wear masks for another year. Fauci said in an interview with CNN that the standard for him to state to the nation that masks are not necessary has not been reached, and that if the vast majority of the nation is vaccinated and the community infection rate is very, very low, then it can be said that masks are not necessary.
The Institute of health Statistics and Evaluation, University of Washington, reports that multiple variants of the virus have been identified in the United States, including the more infectious British variant, and the report expects that The report expects that the number of new cases of UK Variant virus infections may increase to 80% by the end of April. The CDC also noted that the British variant is spreading rapidly throughout the United States and could become the leading virus in the United States by March. In addition, at least 10 states have now found cases of South African variant virus infection.
A White House spokesman said that as the number of deaths from the new U.S. crown tops 500,000, President Joe Biden will hold a candlelight ceremony and a moment of silence on the evening of the 22nd, and Biden will speak on the lives lost before the ceremony.
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