The U.S. projects COVID-19 infections will continue to spread over the summer travel season.
and widely accessible treatments have helped to delink infections and mortality.
Confirmed Covid infections in the U.S. have quadrupled since late March, from about 25,000 a day to more than 105,000 daily now.Jha said that given the wider use of at-home rapid tests, whose results often go unreported to public health officials, the true number of daily infections is likely 200,000 or more — double the reported rate — which he said only makes the death rate plateau more significant.
“We are now at a point where I believe fundamentally most COVID deaths are preventable, that the deaths that are happening out there are mostly unnecessary, and there are a lot of tools we have now to make sure people do not die of this disease,” Jha told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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