US breaks daily record for second consecutive day with 5,80,000 cases – Times of India

Washington: 2022 is also on the way to 2020. The third year of the global pandemic is on the cards with more than half a million new Covid-19 cases reported in the US in the new year. With more than 580,000 infections, the country broke its own record for new daily cases – beating a milestone it had broken just a day earlier. Thursday’s count topped 4,88,000 new cases on Wednesday, nearly double the number of cases last winter, according to the NYT database. The only silver lining is that omicron The stress is leading to fewer illness and fewer hospitalizations, especially among those who are vaccinated.
Americans, even those being told to avoid vaccination altogether, give up partying and hugging and kissing on New Year’s Eve as the virus gallops, hospital workers, airlines Infecting essential workers, restaurant workers and the like. Doctor Michael Osterholm, a member of the President BidenThe Kovid Task Force of the Transition Team told CBS News He expects a “viral blizzard” to further aggravate the situation in the coming weeks.
US airlines canceled nearly 1,000 flights on Thursday and restaurants began to close as the virus put a hex on New Year’s celebrations, the effects of which are already being seen on the ground. Schools and colleges, which are scheduled to reopen after the holiday on January 3, are re-evaluating the situation. Some have already announced a return to online instruction.
on the heels of it all CDC Recently the quarantine time required for a positive Covid case has been reduced from ten days to five days, in an effort to keep the society functioning amid the boom. About 200 million Americans, about 62% of the population, have been fully vaccinated, and about a third of those, more than 68 million, have received a booster dose. This may account for the relatively low level of hospitalization and mortality. Despite the rise in infections, deaths in the past two weeks have come down by 5% with a daily average of 1221 (compared to over 3000 deaths a day in 2020 at the previous height of the pandemic) while hospitalizations have increased only has increased by 15%. 78,781 per day on an average. But no one is sticking out their necks with projections written in stone (one expert said he uses a pencil instead of a pen in the calculations) even though Omicron is now a confirmed lighter version. It is only the 15th Greek alphabet of 25. Next comes Pi, and the human race is hoping it won’t get to life.

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