The Director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases made important statements about Omicron. Although the authorities stated that they have seen an increase in the number of cases and hospitalizations, the death rate has decreased.
Although a total of 9.1 billion doses of vaccine have been administered worldwide to date, the coronavirus continues to increase its effectiveness by mutating. In the days when the whole world was battling the Delta variant, the newly emerged Omicron variantcaused many countries to take new measures and revealed the necessity of the third dose of vaccine.
All research on the Omicron variant showed it to be more contagious than Delta, the most dominant variant today. Today, another comforting statement came about the lethality of the variant. US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held a press release at the White House.
Although the number of hospitalizations and cases increased, the death rate decreased:
Despite the rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in recent weeks, the CDC said in its press release that hospitalization and death rates remain “relatively low” compared to the Delta variant explained. CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky said that the number of positive cases compared to last week increased by 60% 240 thousand, hospitalizations up 14% He stated that it has increased to 9 thousand.
Although there was a significant increase in the number of positive cases and hospitalizations in a short time, death rates fell by 7% over the same time period. It was stated that the death rate in the USA is around 1,100 per day. Another statement in support of the CDC is Director of the US Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Dr. It came from Anthony Fauci.
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Fauci stated that Omicron will follow a lower graph in positive cases and hospitalizations compared to the Delta variant. that COVID-19 vaccines will be critical to this fight emphasized. Expressing that a second vaccine may be needed against Omicron, Fauci added that there is not enough data on how much protection the current booster vaccines provide.
On the other hand, although the data show that death rates are declining for now, Walensky and Fauci report that real data on hospitalizations and deaths two weeks late warned about.
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