New coronavirus cases across the United States have plummeted, following the successful vaccination campaigns.
Some hospitals in the U.S. now have no COVID patients whatsoever. As cases, hospitalisations and deaths steadily dropped this week, there is word the vaccination campaigns are stemming both severe COVID cases and the spread of the virus in the U.S.
Pre-pandemic life in America has largely resumed. Hugs and unmasked crowds returned to the White House, a Mardi Gras-style parade marched through Alabama’s port city of Mobile, and even states that have stuck to anti-virus regulations readied to drop them.
The director of the CDC says the seven-day average for new cases this week dropped below the 30,000 level per day, and that the cases have not been this low since June last year. The average number of deaths over the last seven days also dropped to 552, the lowest since July last year. It’s a substantial drop since the onset of the pandemic.
Thanks to the successfully vaccination campaigns, more than 60 percent of people over 18 have received at least one shot, and almost half of them are fully vaccinated. Demand for vaccines, however, has dropped across much of the country. Biden is now trying to convince more Americans to get vaccinated, hoping the country will return to normal in the near future.
Still, health experts have cautioned that there’s a potential for new variants that could extend the pandemic.
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