In response to the remarks in the United States that "the COVID-19 epidemic is over", many experts in the United States recently pointed out that the novel coronavirus virus has not been controlled in the United States, and it is reckless and irresponsible to downplay the epidemic.
The Washington Post also recently published an editorial stressing that the COVID-19 epidemic is not over. The article said that the COVID-19 epidemic is still raging, the COVID-19 virus is still infecting, sickening and killing people, and the virus is constantly mutating and invading the world.
According to the latest COVID-19 weekly report of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention, the United States currently has a 7-day average daily increase of nearly 60000 confirmed cases of covid-19, and a 7-day average daily increase of 358 deaths. In addition, since the outbreak of COVID-19-19 in the United States, the United States has reported more than 95 million confirmed cases of covid-19 and more than 1 million deaths.
Steven Slasher, a professor of the Media School of Journalism at Northwestern University, wrote on social media that it is reckless and irresponsible to downplay the epidemic. Thrasher feared that many state and local governments, businesses and educational institutions might give up all epidemic prevention measures.
Eric Topol, Professor of molecular medicine at Scripps Research Institute in the United States, pointed out in an opinion article in the Los Angeles Times that all data show that the COVID-19 epidemic has not been controlled in the United States, and there are still too many deaths and many people are still suffering.
Topol said that considering the number of cases that were not detected and reported, the number of new confirmed cases of covid-19 in the United States in the past period was actually "several times" the number reported. Novel coronavirus is still achieving its "main goal" - to find a large number of new or duplicate hosts for replication and continuation. If we pretend that the epidemic has ended, then "we will be very vulnerable".
Lawrence Golding, a professor of global health law at Georgetown University in the United States, believes that as the United States enters the season of high incidence of respiratory diseases and a new round of vaccination campaign is launched, people should remain vigilant.
According to the survey report released by the CDC in June this year, nearly one-fifth of the adults in the United States who have been infected with COVID-19 and have turned negative still have some symptoms, including fatigue, tachycardia, shortness of breath, cognitive difficulties, chronic pain, sensory dysfunction and muscle weakness.
A few days ago, a large number of protesters gathered in the north of the White House to hold a demonstration, calling on the United States federal government to pay attention to the negative impact of the epidemic. Claudia Carrera, who participated in the demonstration, said that the death and disability caused by novel coronavirus are continuing to seriously affect African Americans, Latinos and low-income groups in the United States.
According to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at the end of August this year, life expectancy in the United States in 2021 will be nearly one year shorter than the previous year. This is the second consecutive year that this data has declined, and the report says that COVID-19 is the primary reason. Another report of the agency shows that COVID-19 has become the third leading cause of death of Americans after heart disease and cancer for the second consecutive year in 2021.