Why Covid deaths have increased exponentially in the United States

United States recorded last week an increase of more than 39% of coronavirus deaths, while it also reported a 43% increase in new cases and 41% in hospitalizations compared to the previous seven days, the network reported today. Centers for Disaster Control and Prevention (CDC, in English).

“The average daily death rate last week rose to 381 deaths, more than 39% from the previous seven days,” the CDC director said, Rochelle Walensky, quoted by the press agency Sputnik.

The official explained that the CDC yesterday reported 103,445 new cases, compared to the weekly average of around 89,463, which is a 43% increase from the previous week’s average.

Along the same lines, he added that hospitalizations increased by 41% last week compared to the previous seven days, with an average of about 7,348 daily admissions.

The increase in the three variables responds to the presence of Delta variant of the coronavirus, considered to be more contagious, as explained Walensky.

Florida and Texas currently account for one-third of new cases of coronavirus in the country, where the infection and death curve has risen again after months of sustained declines.

Yesterday the president Joe biden criticized the governors of the two states, Ron DeSantis, from Florida, and Greg Abbott, from Texas, for rejecting the mandatory use of masks in their states and asking them to “step aside” if they were unwilling to help.

With the variant DeltaGrowing sharply in areas of the country with the lowest vaccination rate, Florida yesterday reached 12,408 inpatients, breaking last year’s record for the fourth day in a row and down from just 1,000 in mid-June .

Additionally, hospitals in that state have reported that over 95% of patients with covid-19 they are not fully vaccinated, according to state data.

But Florida is not the only state to see epidemiological curves increasing. Four patients infected with covid-19 at the Anniston Regional Medical Center, Alabama, all unvaccinated, died Tuesday, marking the deadliest day of the pandemic at that hospital.