The global focus of the corona plague has been in recent weeks around the continent of Europe and especially on Britain and France which last night (Wednesday) crossed the threshold of 200,000 verified per day.
Now the U.S. has bypassed the two together and alone recorded a negative record of morbidity with close to half a million verified, according to the New York Times.
Some 488,000 people have been infected with the virus, the highest figure since the outbreak two years ago in Wuhan, China.
The alarming rise occurs in the midst of another wave plaguing the country, a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) decided to ease restrictions for the vaccinated who were exposed to a verified patient and shortened the isolation obligation from 10 days to just five.
"Many people are only asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, especially those who have been vaccinated or given reinforcement, and therefore, it is very possible that they could not or were not able to withstand 10 days of isolation," justified Dr. Rochel Walansky, director of the CDC.
"It was a way of telling people, 'Make sure you're lonely in those first five days where you're more contagious. And then, of course, wear a mask for the last five days.'
However, the expert did not appear to be concerned about the increase in infections as a result of the omicron variant and claimed that the number of patients remained "relatively" low against a daily average in the last week of about 250,000 people diagnosed with the virus.
To date, over 820,000 people have died in the United States, about 2,000 of them in the last day.
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