As of February 8, more than 106 million cases of the virus have been confirmed worldwide, including nearly 27 million in the United States, according to real-time data from Johns Hopkins University.
According to the China News Service on February 8, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the United States has reached nearly 27 million, with more than 463,000 deaths.
According to a digital model published by a team of researchers at Columbia University, on any given day, the actual number of active cases in the United States — people newly infected or still infectious — may be 10 times the number of officially reported cases on that day.
The situation is even worse given the current number of active cases.
On average, infected people are contagious three to four days before symptoms appear, said lead researcher and Columbia University infectious disease expert David Shaman.
So the study also counted those who were infected before and those who are still spreading the virus.
Meanwhile, the new crown variant is spreading rapidly in the United States.
Novel coronavirus, a variant previously found in the United Kingdom, is spreading rapidly in the United States and has even seen significant community spread, a new study finds.
The study estimated that the mutated virus was 35 to 45 per cent more infectious than earlier versions of the virus that had emerged in the US.
But many people infected with the mutated virus in the United States have not reported recent international travel, suggesting that the virus “has had significant community transmission throughout the United States.”
It’s worth noting that the outbreak’s rapid spread comes just before the Super Bowl.
The 55th annual Super Bowl of the National Football League (NFL) will take place in Tampa, Florida.
The Super Bowl will also increase the spread of the disease in the United States.
On Feb. 5, Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, also warned that “everyone can enjoy the Super Bowl, but don’t have large crowds gathering indoors, especially if there’s not good ventilation.”
On the same day, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention urged Americans not to party, but to stay at home and watch the broadcast, so that the Super Bowl does not become a viral event.
, assistant researcher, of the China institute of contemporary international relations in the United States institute Sun Chenghao, according to the current outbreak in the United States have no obvious improvement, the vaccine in distribution and inventory problems in such aspects as the current epidemic situation is relatively serious, while on the mend, but certainly not to the extent to which a big sporting event, the cluster sex is a big sports event might lead to a greater risk of the disease spread.