08/08/2021

The U.S. is Now Averaging 100,000 New COVID-19 Cases a Day

The unvaccinated are those being most impacted by the variant

On Saturday, the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections, a milestone last exceeded during the pre-vaccine winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South.

Health officials fear that cases, hospitalizations and deaths will continue to soar if more Americans don't embrace the vaccine. Nationwide, 50 percent of residents are fully vaccinated and more than 70 percent of adults have received at least one dose.

"Our models show if we don't (vaccinate people), we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to our surge in early January," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Rochelle Walensky said to CNN this week.

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