The incoming CDC director expects 500,000 coronavirus deaths by mid-February

The incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Sunday she expects the U.S. to reach 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 in mid-February.

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He noted that the United States has reached nearly 4,000 deaths a day and nearly 400,000 coronavirus deaths in total.

“By mid-February we expect half a million deaths in this country,” he said.

Walensky stressed that these figures do not explain the “tens of thousands” of people who recovered from COVID-19, but have an “uncharacterized syndrome.” He also said the United States has not yet seen “the ramifications of what happened from the vacation trip,” which the incoming director said will lead to “high rates of hospitalizations and deaths later.”

“I think we still have a few dark weeks ahead of us,” he said.

Els Estats Units han comptabilitzat més de 23,8 milions de casos de COVID-19 i 397.252 morts, segons dades de Universitat Johns Hopkins.

La taxa de mortalitat ha assolit nous nivells al llarg dels mesos més freds i, entre el 12 i el 16 de gener, els EUA han registrat almenys 3.6000 morts al dia, segons El projecte de seguiment COVID.

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Després que Margaret Brennan, moderadora de “Face The Nation”, va preguntar a Walensky amb quina freqüència realitzarà reunions informatives, la directora entrant va dir que “informarà el més sovint que pugui” i “tan sovint com arribi informació nova”.

“Quan hi hagi coses noves per informar, tindreu notícies d’algú al CDC i potser seré jo”, va dir.

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