Prime Minister Boris Johnson delayed lifting restrictions on his country due to the rapid spread of the so-called Delta variant. One piece of good news on the fatality front is that, according to the Washington Post, the number of daily reported deaths has fallen about 28 percent. Deaths from the current pandemic have mounted past 600,000 despite the advent of modern medicine and infection controls, an actual understanding of the flu virus and, for the past few months, an actual vaccine. For comparison, there were an estimated 675,000 American lives lost to the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic. According to Johns Hopkins University, the macabre count stood at 600,039 early Tuesday. Phil Scott said on Monday that he was curtailing all remaining state pandemic restrictions as of midweek.īut those sunny proclamations came on the same day that the United States topped 600,000 Covid-related deaths. Larry Hogan announced on Tuesday that his state would lift Covid prohibitions on July 4. Gavin Newsom, who himself announced his state’s “ full reopening” on Tuesday with the words, “We’ve turned the page.” Those words were echoed at nearly the same moment by California Gov. Andrew Cuomo said as he announced the state’s broad reopening on Tuesday. PREVIOUSLY on April 15: “We can now return to life as we know it,” New York Gov. While young people’s stronger immune systems may have protected them earlier in the pandemic, they seem much less effective against the highly-infectious Delta variant. One study of 100,000 people there found a five-fold higher positivity rate among children 5-15 years old and among young adults 18-24, than among seniors 65+. In the U.K., said Fauci, young people are driving the surge.
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