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However, because of the way deaths lag cases, it will be weeks before the full effect of the current case surge is reflected in death counts.Īnd because of the widening availability of at-home tests in the United States and Europe, official case numbers - which scientists have long argued are an undercount - may diverge more than ever from actual totals. The trend suggests that the grim cadence seen for the past two years - a wave of infections, followed by a matching surge of hospitalizations, then deaths - may have been altered, in large part because of the protection offered by vaccines. In France, average daily cases have quadrupled to a record, while hospitalizations have risen by about 70 percent and deaths have doubled, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. Hospitalizations are rising at a slower rate, up 60 percent in the past two weeks, while deaths are up by 2 percent. In the United States, cases are averaging a staggering 610,000 each day, a 227 percent increase from two weeks ago.
Fauci told ABC News on Sunday.Ībout 60 percent of the world has received at least a single dose of a Covid vaccine, but nearly three-quarters of all the shots have been administered in the world’s wealthiest nations, leaving people in parts of Africa and Asia vulnerable. “As you get further on and the infections become less severe, it is much more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations,” Dr. government’s top infectious disease expert, suggested that it was time to stop focusing on case counts. The seven-day average is the average of a day and the previous six days of data. Daily cases are the number of new cases reported each day. Source: Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University, U.S. And though cases are rising faster than ever - the United States, Australia, France and many other nations are seeing record surges - hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are increasing more slowly.īut experts do worry that the sheer number of possible cases may still burden health care systems already strained by previous waves of infection. So far, the new Omicron variant appears to produce severe illness in fewer people than previous versions of the virus did, and research indicates that Covid vaccines still offer protection against the worst outcomes. Yet surpassing 300 million known cases - a milestone that was reached on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University - comes as a growing number of experts argue that it is time to stop focusing on case numbers. The third 100 million came even faster, in barely five months, as large segments of countries, rich and poor alike, remain unvaccinated and a fast-spreading new variant has proved able to infect even those who are.Ĭase counts, though imperfect, have been a key barometer throughout the pandemic, a benchmark not only for governments implementing mitigation measures but also for people trying to discern the threat in their own communities. It took more than a year for the world to record the first 100 million coronavirus cases, and half that time to tally the next 100 million. A coronavirus testing center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Thursday.
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