General

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. Covid-19 has rebounded sharply recently, and the number of new cases of Covid-19 has surged again. It has reached 100,000 for three consecutive days, an increase of 35% from the previous week and the highest level in six months.

Due to the rapid spread of the delta mutant strain in some areas of the United States where vaccination rates are still low, such as Texas, Florida, and Missouri, the local hospitals are almost full and on the verge of collapse.

In the past week, the number of hospitalized cases of COVID-19 in the United States has risen by 40%. On Monday, the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas, the United States, was close to a historical high. About 87% of hospital beds were in use, and 14.1% of the hospitalized cases were COVID-19 patients, the highest record since the beginning of the epidemic last year.

In this outbreak, the number of child patients has increased significantly. A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics shows that in the week ending August 5, the number of children infected with the new crown exceeded 93,000.

Currently, nearly 15% of all new infections in the United States are children, and the number of children who need to be hospitalized is the highest since the epidemic.

With the opening of schools in various parts of the United States, the epidemic prevention of American campuses is facing severe challenges. In Florida, a total of 300 children were hospitalized with the new crown last week.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis previously signed an executive order banning schools from requiring students to wear masks when they return to school in the fall. The Broward County School Board in Florida passed an 8 to 1 vote on Tuesday to require teachers and students to wear masks, and plans to initiate legal proceedings against the governor’s injunction.

Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington, said that many Americans are still walking around as they did before the pandemic, which is undoubtedly fatal to the prevention and control of the epidemic.

Despite the government’s continuous warnings, bars and restaurants are still open as usual in certain areas of the United States, which is undoubtedly worse in the United States, where the epidemic is worsening. According to a press release issued by the governor's office, on Friday and Saturday, at least 60 bars and restaurants in New York were issued with coronavirus-related violations.

This week in a small town in South Dakota, thousands of people are rushing for a grand event-the 80th annual Sturgis City Motorcycle Rally.

City officials said that the event attracted about 500,000 visitors in the past few years. Although they recommended guidelines such as social distancing and bar capacity restrictions, these are not legally enforceable and non-binding.

It can be seen that the US epidemic is so serious that in addition to the slowdown in vaccination frequency, the public’s "non-compliance" of epidemic prevention measures is also one of the main causes of the epidemic. Excessive mindlessness in advocating freedom will inevitably be the price of life. !