The pandemic begins to recede in the United States despite the rise in deaths

In recent days, the United States has registered the first drop in infections and hospitalizations since the wave of omicron began in December, but deaths continue to rise and the White House called on Wednesday not to lower our guard and to get vaccinated .

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the average daily number of COVID-19 cases for the last seven days is 692,400, 6% less than the previous week, and the number of admissions hospitals of 19,800, 8% less.

This is the first time that there has been a setback in the United States, the country in the world with the most COVID-19 infections (72.3 million) and deaths (more than 873,000) from the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, while the omicron variable of the coronavirus continues to set records in the rest of the American continent.

The pandemic begins to recede in the United States Despite the rise in deaths

But this decrease has not yet translated into the number of deaths, since the average for the last week in the US was 2,200 daily deaths, 21% higher than the previous week, according to the CDC.

Scientists advising President Joe Biden have long predicted that omicron would have an explosive breakthrough, but also a rapid decline, just as it did in South Africa.

EFE reports.

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