WASHINGTON (Washington Insider Magazine) – According to real-time statistics provided by Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Systems Science and Engineering, more than 5.7 million individuals have died globally as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic, including over 909,000 Americans.
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, around 64.2 percent of the population in the United States is completely vaccinated against COVID-19.
According to the World Health Organization’s weekly epidemiological bulletin issued Tuesday, the United States had the highest number of officially confirmed COVID-19 incidence and mortality of any country in the world last week.
During the week of January 31 to February 6, more than 1.8 million fresh cases were reported in the United States, a 50% drop from the previous week. According to the WHO, over 14,000 new deaths were reported, a 15% reduction.
According to the WHO, France had the second-highest number of new cases with over 1.7 million, a fall of 26%, while India had the second-highest number of new fatalities with almost 8,000, a 69 percent rise.
Meanwhile, the WHO said that over the same time period, the worldwide number of new cases declined by 17% compared with the prior week, while mortality climbed by 7%.
According to ABC NEWS, the mask mandate might be lifted eight weeks after immunizations for children under the age of five are authorized. Pfizer applied to the Food and Drug Administration to get its vaccine licensed for children aged six months to five years. On February 15, a hearing will be held.
According to official data, the case rate in the United States has decreased by 63.4 percent from its high three weeks ago.
Experts warn, though, that the United States isn’t out of the woods yet. Case numbers are still far higher than in past outbreaks, and the United States continues to report millions of new cases each week. Many Americans who take at-home testing do not submit their findings, according to experts, thus case final numbers may be underestimated.
