The Delta variant wave has begun in America. While many governors are opening their states fully, the Delta Variant is causing a rise in COVID-19 cases across the country.
President Joe Biden encouraged Americans to get out for the 4th of July as his vaccination plan to have 70% of Americans fully vaccinated fell short of his goal. The CDC shows that 48.2% of the American population is fully vaccinated. The vaccine initiative has ground to a halt as Americans cling to medical misinformation and partisan politics over their health needs.
July 4th weekend events were most certainly super spreader events. Cases usually rise two weeks after a super spreader and cases are on a steep incline doubling in the last two weeks. The unvaccinated account for 99% of fatalities.
“We’re losing time here. The delta variant is spreading, people are dying, we can’t actually just wait for things to get more rational,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health told CNN July 14, 2021.
Elsewhere, Indonesia set another daily case record of 54,517 and has overtaken India as the Asian epicenter of the pandemic, CNN reported. At least 991 fatalities were recorded in the nation of about 170 million people on July 14. 2021 to push the total to 69,210. In China, local governments are moving aggressively to push residents to get vaccinated and some are planning to bar them from accessing public venues if they refuse, The Wall Street Journal reported.
England is experiencing a huge spike in cases because so many people fled India where the Delta variant first ignited. England plans to fully open on July 19, 2021 while cases soar towards 100000 a day.The government in England seems to be pushing for a herd immunity strategy by just letting everyone get infected.
A cluster of COVID cases at a hotel hosting Olympic athletes is raising concerns coming just over a week before the opening ceremony, Reuters reported. Adding to the gloom, Tokyo has just recorded its highest number of new COVID cases in six months.