The United States faces a huge wave of infections this January.
This Friday, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, said that he does not believe that the coronavirus pandemic, in its current form, is going to stay forever, given the increase in omicron cases around the world.
“I don’t think COVID-19 is here to stay. Having COVID in the environment, here, in the world … will probably continue, but COVID, as we are dealing with it now, is not going to continue like this, “said Biden in response to a question from journalists. after delivering a speech at the White House on unemployment.
The president explained that currently there are many tools that are being developed to contain the different variants of the disease and that the situation is very different now compared to a year ago.
In that sense, he spoke of the importance of tests to detect whether someone is infected or not, and pointed out that eleven million COVID-19 tests are being carried out in the United States per day.
“In addition, we are in the process of adding an additional 500,000 tests. Therefore, we will be able to control this. The new normal is not going to be what it is now, it is going to be better ”, he settled.
The United States is the country most affected by the pandemic, with more than 58.6 million infections and more than 800,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
As in other nations, the expansion of the omicron variant has caused an increase in cases in the United States – which surpassed one million infections on Monday alone – as well as hospitalizations and deaths.
The situation in the North American country is delicate and, according to a forecast by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the next four weeks around 84,000 people could die due to rapid infections. This would mean almost triple the daily deaths that we have this week, points out the Johns Hopkins University. (I)
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