Washington.- Hospitalizations for cases of covid-19 in The United States rose 12.1% in the week ending July 22 compared to the previous week, the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates.
In the week ending July 22, there were 8,035 cases of covid-19 who required hospitalization, compared to 7,168 the previous week. The increases are not even across the country and are most notable in the Southeast.
Hospitalizations for the disease, which spread in a 2020 pandemic that paralyzed the country, have been rising in recent weeks for the first time this year.
In the previous surge of cases of the disease a year ago, hospitalizations topped 15,000 a week.
But the White House maintains that the current increase is not unusual and that health authorities are closely monitoring the situation.
“The Administration has made historic progress in our nation’s ability to deal with COVID-19 in such a way that (the disease) no longer significantly disrupts the way we live our lives,” the House spokeswoman said Monday. White, Kelly Scully.
For his part, Brett Giroir, who led the covid-19 testing campaign in the government of now former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), told the media that the increase in covid-19 cases should not be considered a major event. .
The CDC data also shows that the death rate from complications of covid-19 has remained unchanged at 0.9% since the beginning of 2023.
Since the start of the pandemic at the beginning of 2020, 6,224,831 hospitalizations for covid-19 have been registered in the United States, and 1,135,919 people have died from this disease.
The health authorities maintain that the people at highest risk for COVID-19 are the elderly and those with underlying health conditions, and recommend up-to-date vaccinations.
