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Vaccination increases in the face of another wave of COVID-19 infections caused by the new strain: should we worry?

2022-04-09T15:57:53.983Z


New York, Los Angeles and most states are experiencing a spike in cases from the BA.2 subvariant of omicron. Many are already protecting themselves, while experts call for calm.


In the last 10 days, the United States registered the first increase so far this year in vaccination against COVID-19, in the face of the new wave of infections driven by the subvariant of omicron BA.2, which already affects more than half from states and cities like New York and Los Angeles, according to NBC News.

The daily number of people vaccinated rose from nearly 200,000 injections per day on March 30 to more than 450,000 on April 7, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Those over 65, the most vulnerable, seem to drive this trend.

This increase comes after the CDC authorized a second booster for those over 50 years of age who received the last dose more than four months ago.

The health authorities have not broken down the vaccination data for the last few days, so it is impossible to know if the increase was due to that fourth dose or to people who got the first booster or were vaccinated for the first time.

Cathy Dozal receives her second COVID-19 booster shot in Long Beach on March 30. MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press / MediaNews Group via Getty Images

The vaccine also plays a key role for older adults who are at high risk of serious illness and death from COVID-19.

A recent study shows that life expectancy decreased in 2020 in the US due to the pandemic, and did not increase in 2021 despite the fact that a vaccine is already available, unlike in other developed countries.

The decline in 2021 mainly affected white people, who are the most reluctant to vaccination and other prevention measures such as masks or social distance.

Life expectancy fell to 76.6 years in 2021 from 78.9 years in 2019. In 2020, it fell by 1.4 years on average for whites compared to 3.7 years for Latinos.

In 2021, on the other hand, with the vaccine already available, it fell by 0.4 years for whites but rose by 0.05 for Latinos, according to The Washington Post. 

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Although infections have generally decreased by 5% in the last two weeks in the United States, they are already increasing again in more than half of the states, and in particular in Washington DC, New York and Massachusetts, due to the spread of the coronavirus. a

stealthy

subvariant

of omicron, which now accounts for nearly three out of four infections in the country, according to the Axios news website.

In New York, infections went from a daily average of 600 in mid-March to 1,400 in early April.

In the same period, infections doubled in San Francisco.

Health experts consulted by NBC News, however, see no reason to be alarmed: "I would not be very concerned about BA.2," said Dr. Christopher Murray, director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, who expects this subvariant to maintain a low rate of spread in the coming months with the arrival of spring weather.

"Right now, immunity is high and we're heading into the summer when transmission tends to be a little bit lower," he said.

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CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stressed Tuesday that cases are declining overall in the country and that most states live in areas with low spread.

In any case, he encouraged keeping up to date with vaccination, especially since over the months it loses effectiveness in preventing infections (although it is still key to avoiding hospitalization or death), and given the prospect that a new more dangerous variant than omicron BA.2.

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"People will still get sick, some people will end up in hospital and some people will die, whether it's a big wave or a small one," said Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Toronto.

The vaccine is still the best remedy.

Source: telemundo

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