COVID-19 surges nationwide — and the highest rates are in California
According to the new data of the US Disease Control and Prevention Centers this week, the COVİD-19 US rates in the United States of America have the highest level of 12.5%. Meanwhile, Los Angeles County has recorded the highest Covid levels in wastewater since February.
Thanks to the new extremely infectious “Stratus” variant, the Spike comes when they return to the class without a CDC proposal where students in California are now updated. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This change in politics pushed by many public health experts was criticized.
COVID-19 virus SARS-Cov-2 often is mutated, learns to better transmit itself from person to person and to escape the immunity created by previous infections.
The Stratus variant, which was first identified in Asia in January, reached the US in March and was a dominant coercion until the end of June. Now, in the United States, waste water is two -thirds of the virus variants. According to HKM.
Covid positivity rate throughout the country reached 9% in early August and after January after January, it exceeded the fluctuation after January, but still increased to 18% of last August. Weekly deaths, which are a metric behind the positivity rates, have been low so far.
In May, RFK JR. The CDC has removed COVID vaccine from the recommended vaccination program for healthy children and healthy pregnant women.
In 2024, the secretary argued that it was the right move to reverse the policy of reversing the policy of the Biden administration to reversed the policy of “healthy children to make any clinical data to support the strengthening strategy of children again.
This statement immediately filed a lawsuit The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Doctors College and a group of leading medical organization, including the American Public Health Assni. – defended the decision of “unquestionable and ignorant, and violated the federal law that could not be based on the policy of the scientific committee facing the vaccination practices in the United States.
Vaccination Applications Advisory Committee RUBE RUIN Typical annual flu vaccine program as well as updated Covid vaccines. Inside Fall 2024-Spring 2025 season update for the seasonThe previous year, a Covid booster reduced the risk of hospitalization by 44% and death by 23%.
The panel argued that the benefit of the benefit, isolated heart conditions and allergic reaction cases overweight.
The panel also admitted that the strengthening efficiency decreased as new Covid strains, where the boosters were not designed, emerged. Nevertheless, most Americans still felt that they had to make strengthening shots.
. CDC estimates Even if only 23% of adults and 13% of children receive the 2024-25 Covid booster-even if they have a vaccine proposal. This is also compared with the roughly half of the updated flu vaccine adults and children.
