According to Experts the United States is Not Through the Pandemic Yet

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been in the news often since COVID emerged in 2019. He is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and is the Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States. Towards the end of April, he did an interview with PBS News Hour and stated “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase…we don’t have 900,000 new infections a day and tens and tens and tens of thousands of hospitalizations and thousands of deaths…right now, we are not in the pandemic phase” 1. This caught the attention of many people and was spread throughout the news.

The very next day he did an interview with NPR in which he wanted to further clarify his statements and believed his previous remarks could be misinterpreted. He told NPR, “What I’m referring to is that we are no longer in the acute fulminant accelerated phase of the outbreak…We’re in a somewhat of a transitional phase where the cases’ numbers have decelerated — and hopefully we’re getting to a phase of somewhat better control, where we can begin to start resuming more easily normal activities…the United States and the entire world is still experiencing a pandemic, but there are different phases of the pandemic and what we are in right now is somewhat of a transitional phase, out of the accelerated component into hopefully a more controlled component.” 2

Although these statements may give the public some comfort, not all people agree with Dr. Fauci’s opinion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website publishes a COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review with the newest COVID numbers. On their May 5th, 2022 review it was stated that COVID cases and hospitalizations are increasing but deaths are decreasing. It is expected that the United States will soon reach 1 million COVID deaths soon. Some other statistics they included in their weekly report include,

● Currently, there are 64,781 new COVID cases daily which has increased by 21.4% since last week

● 81,492,170 cases of COVID have been reported in the US

● Approximately 77.7% of the United States population have gotten at least one dose of a COVID vaccine

● Currently, there is an average of 2,219 new COVID hospitalizations daily which has increased by 16.6% since last week

● Currently, there is an average of 334 COVID deaths every day, this has decreased by — 2.5% since last week 3

The current numbers are promising but some experts don’t agree with Dr. Fauci. The senior medical director for HGS Axis Point Health Dr. Lisa Dogged told Healthline, “The decline in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the U.S. since the winter Omicron surge has been great news from a public health standpoint but contrary to what many people think, the pandemic isn’t over. Case rates and hospitalizations have actually crept up again in the U.S. over the last two weeks or so and other parts of the world are seeing high numbers of cases.” 4 Although many people may want life to be back to normal, as it was prior to COVID, we are not there yet and must still proceed with caution and health in mind.

References

1. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dr-fauci-on-why-the-u-s-is-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-2
2. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/27/1094997608/fauci-us-pandemic-phase-covid-19
3. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html
4. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/it-may-be-too-early-to-say-weve-flattened-the-curve-on-covid-19-heres-why?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=owned&utm_term=covid&utm_content=2022-05-03#Doing-the-math

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