Younger people who have not been vaccinated are helping to boost an increase in new Covid-19 cases, health officials found.
Five states (Michigan, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey) account for approximately 42% of recently reported cases. In Michigan, adults between the ages of 20 and 39 have the highest daily case rates, according to new data. Case rates for children 19 and under are at a record, more than quadruple a month ago. According to state data, 301 school outbreaks were reported early last week, up from 248 the previous week.
Epidemiologists and public health authorities have noted that school sport is the main source of transmission of Covid-19. Since January, the K-12 sports broadcast in Michigan has been the highest in basketball, with 376 cases and 100 groups; in hockey, with 256 boxes and 52 groups; and in wrestling, with 190 cases and 55 groups. In general, cases and groups have occurred in more than 15 sports settings, according to state data.
Boosting the global rise among Michigan’s youngest and, more broadly, is a confluence of fatigue from the pandemic, which is leading some people to maintain closer contact and spread the UK’s most transmissible variant, known as in B.1.1. .7.
“It used to be that we had clusters of the variant. The cases were in fairly contained situations. Now, we definitely see cases of the variant emerging in the general community, ”said Emily Toth Martin, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. “It’s worrying that we’re seeing big explosive rises in groups where we can’t use the vaccine.”