Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health at Brown University, warned about the number of pandemics as covetous deaths in the U.S. increase, once again, to more than 1,000 a day.
“I think we’ll see death tolls rise even more in the coming weeks, but I hope there are states that are in a big way like Florida, Louisiana, which are at their peak and may be going down,” Jha said. in “The News with Shepard Smith.” “Hopefully yes.”
The delta variant has continued to cause a deadly wave that overwhelms hospitals and takes cases to levels the country has not seen since February. According to Johns Hopkins, the United States makes an average of approximately 147,000 new infections each day.
Jha told host Shepard Smith that full approval of the Pfizer and BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration could convince enough vaccinated people to curb the spread of the delta.
“I think it will make a big difference and, look, I think there are some people who have been waiting for this full approval, and for them I think it will help,” Jha said. “When you look at the unvaccinated, about two-thirds of them say they would get the vaccine if there was a warrant, so I think you’ll see a lot of people jump off the fence and start getting vaccinated.”
Following the FDA decision, the Pentagon announced that it will order Covid shots for all active-duty military personnel. The New York City public school system, the largest in the country, announced that teachers, guardians and staff should have at least one dose of vaccine by the end of September, a move that will affect about 148,000 city employees. .