The U.S. is now reporting the highest 7-day average of daily new COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic, surpassing the record from January.
On Tuesday, the U.S. average rose above 265,000 new cases per day, according to thefrom Johns Hopkins University. The previous record was about 252,000 daily cases on Jan. 11.
“January is going to be a really, really hard month. And people should just brace themselves for a month where lots of people are going to get infected,” Ashish Jha, MD, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health,Most people who are vaccinated and received a booster shot won’t have a severe illness, but public health experts are concerned about unvaccinated people, he said.are going to end up getting pretty sick, and it’s going to be pretty disruptive,” Jha said.
The rate of COVID-19 hospitalizations among pediatric patients is also on the rise and nearing the record high set in September, CNN reported. Several states have reported increases of about 50% in pediatric admissions in December, and New York City has seen an increase of about five times the admissions over a 3-week period.
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