The U.S. is now averaging 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, returning to a milestone last seen during the winter surge in another bleak reminder of how quickly the delta variant of the coronavirus has spread.
Health officials fear that the numbers of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to soar if more Americans don’t embrace the COVID-19 vaccine. Nationwide, 50 per cent of residents are fully vaccinated and more than 70 per cent of adults have received at least one dose.
It took the U.S. about nine months to cross the 100,000 average case number in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June, averaging about 11,000 per day, but six weeks later the number is 107,143.
Hospitalizations and deaths are also increasing rapidly, though all are still below peaks seen early this year before vaccines became widely available.
More than 44,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up 30 per cent in a week and nearly four times the number who were hospitalized in June. More than 120,000 were hospitalized in January.
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