According to the BBC report on September 20, although the number of deaths in the United States is still rising, with an average of more than 400 Americans dying of the virus every day, President Biden of the country announced that the epidemic in the United States has ended.
That's what Biden said in an interview with CBS's 60 Minutes, which was broadcast last weekend. Biden said that although the United States is still doing "a lot of work" to control the virus, the new pandemic has ended.
In August this year, US officials extended the COVID-19-19 public health emergency state that had been in effect since January 2020 to October 13.
So far, more than one million Americans have died of novel coronavirus. According to the data of Johns Hopkins University, the average death toll in seven days now exceeds 400, and the death toll in the past week exceeded 3000.
In contrast, in January 2021, more than 23000 people were reported to have died of the virus in just one week. About 65% of the total population of the United States is fully vaccinated.
Public health officials have expressed cautious optimism in recent weeks that the world is slowly moving towards epidemic recovery, but continue to urge people to be cautious.
On Monday, Dr. Antony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, admitted that the situation had improved. But when he gave his opinion to a think tank in Washington, D.C., he said that the current daily mortality rate was still "unacceptably high".
"If we want to 'co-exist with viruses', we have not reached the required level." Dr. Fauci said. He also warned that new variants of COVID-19 may still emerge, especially in the coming winter.
Recently, the United States approved a new vaccine that matches the current prevailing Omikjon strain in the country. Federal health officials asked Americans to maintain the latest vaccine.
Last week, WHO Director General Tan Desai said that the world "has reached the best time in history to end the epidemic". He said: "We haven't reached that step yet, but the end is right in front of us."
COVID-19 also continues to have a significant impact on the US economy. The US National Bureau of economic research reported last week that diseases related to novel coronavirus have reduced the US labor force by about 500000.
Biden believed that the epidemic had a "profound" impact on American psychology. "This has changed everything... people's attitude towards themselves, their families, their country and their communities." "This is a very difficult period," he said
Since the outbreak began, more than 6.5 million people have died worldwide. The United States has the highest death toll, followed by India and Brazil.