The delta variant lurks strongly in the United States: the country registers a record of infections

Despite the fact that at least one dose of the vaccine has been administered to more than 70% of the adult population in the country, the spread of the supercontagious delta variant of the coronavirus has caused the United States to once again register record numbers of COVID-infections. 19.

The country has registered an average of 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, a milestone that had not been seen since the winter.

While the US recorded an average of 11,000 daily cases at the end of June,

this number is now 107,143.

The seven-day average of new daily deaths also increased,

according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

In the last two weeks it has gone from about 270 daily deaths to almost 500 as of Friday.

The

virus is spreading

rapidly among the unvaccinated population

, especially in the south of the country, where hospitals are saturated.

Florida, the state hardest hit by the pandemic, again registered a new record of cases (22,783) and hospitalizations (13,427) on Friday.

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In Houston, Texas, some ambulances have had to wait hours to unload patients at Houston-area hospitals because beds were not available.

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"

The health care system is right now almost at a breaking point

... For the next three weeks or so, I don't see any relief in the emergency departments," said Dr. David Persse, health authority for the Department of Houston Health and Medical Director for Emergency Medical Services told The Associated Press news agency Thursday.

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"You have to get vaccinated"

As soon as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues full approval of the vaccine,

there will be "an avalanche" of vaccination mandates in businesses and schools

across the country, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Max. infectious disease expert in the country, to USA Today.

These will not be produced at the federal level but will encourage many groups to do so, as has happened so far.

"Organizations, companies, universities, schools that have been reluctant to mandates at the local level will feel much more secure," he told the aforementioned media.

A highly contagious variant

According to experts, the delta variant is the most contagious of all known to date and is more than twice as transmissible as the original variant of the coronavirus.

Since, according to these, the viral load of this is much higher, that is, the amount of virus present in the body.

"We have seen through testing that

people infected with the delta variant have more virus in their samples

than people who had any other subtype of the virus," Susan Butler-Wu, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Southern California told our sister network NBC News.

"That is a large part of what is going to explain this increased transmissibility," he added.

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According to a study by Chinese researchers, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, people infected with this variant had

viral loads up to 1,260 times higher

than the viral loads of people infected with the original variant.

According to an internal document from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this variant spreads as easily as chickenpox and appears to cause a more serious illness.