CALIFORNIA — The “end is in sight” of the pandemic, the World Health Organization said this week, but there are still precautions California citizens would have to take with COVID-19, according to fitness officials.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that new cases and hospitalizations in the U. S. The U. S. is reaching the lowest point since the beginning of the pandemic. Still, the number of deaths, an average of 357 per day, according to the CDC. seven-day moving average: Well above the average of 168 daily deaths for the week ending July 6, 2022. Just 3 months ago, the average of 258 deaths coincided with the day.
California has recently averaged 29 deaths a day, according to CDC data. In early 2022, from mid-January to the end of March, the CDC recorded more than a hundred deaths daily in California. The highest seven-day average of daily deaths for 2022 was 216 on Feb. 17. During the force increases in 2020 and 2021, the number of daily deaths in the state was several times higher than in 2022.
“We have never been better positioned to end the pandemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing on Wednesday after COVID-19 DEATHS hit their lowest point, 11,000 for the week of September 5-11, since the pandemic. Started.
“We’ve arrived, but the end is in sight,” he said, warning that “now is the worst time to avoid running” in the race against the virus.
The United States is seeing “a shift in our fight against the virus,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House’s COVID-19 reaction coordinator, said at a briefing earlier this month.
This is if the virus mutates again, making a new omicron-specific booster less effective.
“In the absence of other variants radically, we are most likely moving towards a path with a vaccination rate similar to that of the annual flu vaccine, with annually updated COVID-19 injections corresponding to the strains that are recently circulating for the majority of the population,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy to Infectious Diseases, at the briefing.
Health officials introduced the new recall for all Americans, but especially for other people age 50 and older and others with underlying physical conditions.
Just over 79% of the U. S. population. The U. S. has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but the number of other people fully vaccinated with a booster is drastically reduced, to 48%.
The percentage of other people in California with at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine is 84%, but like national figures, the number of other people fully vaccinated with a booster is well below 56%.
Hospitalizations are an important measure used by health officials to track the influence of COVID-19 in fast areas. The CDC’s maximum recent hospitalization forecast indicates that admissions “will remain strong or trend doubtfully,” with between 1,300 and 7,700 new admissions. admissions peaked probably during the first week of October.
California is expected to have between a hundred and 1,000 admissions likely in the first week of October.
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