Coronavirus Live: Fauci warns of ‘skyrocket’ in US cases after Thanksgiving | World news

The United States passed four million coronavirus cases in November on Saturday, more than double the record of 1.9 million cases set in October.

Airlines and transportation officials report Americans traveled by the millions over the weekend, and in the midst of Black Friday retailers experienced large crowds and nightly queues despite government calls. and merchants to buy primarily online.

US surgeon general Jerome Adams acknowledged the surge on Sunday, adding that he expects the rise to continue. Covid-19 has now killed more than 265,000 people in America, with 1,192 new deaths from the virus reported on Saturday.

“I want to be frank with the American people, it’s going to get worse over the next few weeks,” he told Fox News on Sunday. “The actions we take over the next few days will determine how bad it is or whether or not we continue to flatten our curve.”

According to Covid-19 tracking data, more than 1.1 million people tested positive for the virus last week, an average of 170,000 people per day. On Saturday, public health officials reported a daily record of 91,635 hospitalizations:

China reported 18 new cases of Covid-19 on November 29, up from 11 a day earlier, the national health authority said on Monday.

The National Health Commission said in a statement that 15 of the new cases were infections imported from abroad. He also reported three local infections in the Inner Mongolia region.

The number of new asymptomatic cases, which China does not classify as confirmed cases, rose to 17 from 10 a day earlier.

The total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in mainland China now stands at 86,530, while the death toll remained unchanged at 4,634.

Dr Fauci also said the arrival of the vaccines offered a “light at the end of the tunnel,” AP reports. This next week, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will meet with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to discuss the vaccine deployment, he said.

He added that President-elect Joe Biden should focus on distributing vaccines in an “efficient and equitable” manner. Fauci also said he plans to push the new administration through a rigorous testing program.

Health workers will likely be among the first to get vaccinated, with the first vaccinations taking place before the end of December, followed by many more in January, February and March, he said.

“So if we can stay united as a country and do these kinds of things to mitigate these outbreaks until a substantial proportion of the population is vaccinated, we can get through that,” Fauci said.

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC “This Week” that the level of infection in the United States. would not be “suddenly returned”.

AP: “So it’s clear that in the next few weeks we’re going to have the same sort of thing. And maybe even two or three weeks later… we might see a surge on a wave, ”he said.

Fauci also appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, where he made similar remarks, adding that it is “not too late” for people returning home after Thanksgiving to help fight the virus by wearing masks, staying away from others and avoiding large groups of people. .

The number of new cases of Covid-19 reported in the United States exceeded 200,000 for the first time on Friday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Since January, when the first infections were reported in the United States, the total number of cases in the country has exceeded 13 million. Over 265,000 people have died.

Aside from the Thanksgiving holiday itself, between 800,000 and over one million travelers passed through US airport checkpoints every day of the past week, according to statistics from the Transportation Security Administration.

That’s a far cry from the 2.3 to 2.6 million views per day last year. But it far exceeds the number of travelers at the start of the pandemic, when daily totals fell below 100,000 on some spring days.

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America’s leading infectious disease expert said on Sunday the country could see an “outbreak” of the coronavirus in the weeks following Thanksgiving, and he doesn’t expect current recommendations for social distancing to be relaxed until Christmas.

Last week, the United States, which has the highest number of cases and deaths of any country in the world, reported more than 200,000 cases in a single day.

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