95% of U.S. counties now see a “high” COVID-19 transmission rate: CDC data

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More than 95 percent of U.S. counties now see “high” COVID-19 transmission rates, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

CDC’s COVID data tracker revealed Tuesday that 95.19 percent of U.S. counties see “high” transmission rates, meaning at least 100 new cases per 100,000 people have been reported in the past seven days. .

About 2% of counties see “substantial” and “low” transmission rates and less than 1% of counties have “moderate” transmission rates.

In the United States there is an increase in cases of COVID-19 across the country, driven largely by the highly infectious delta variant, which is more contagious than previous versions of the virus.

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The United States on Tuesday surpassed 40 million COVID-19 cases, according to CDC data. More than 647,000 people in the U.S. have died since the pandemic began.

Most recent hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19, however, have been among unvaccinated individuals, further reinforcing evidence that the shots are effective against serious disease.

Seventy-five percent of adults in the United States are at least partially vaccinated against COVID-19, a milestone announced Tuesday by a White House official.

More than 1.5 million shots were fired between Sunday and Tuesday, according to Cyrus Shahpar, White House director of data for COVID-19, which raised U.S. adults above 75 percent.

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