population that is fully vaccinated has not been enough to prevent hot spots. The situation is not as dire as last year’s holiday-season surge, before the public had access to COVID-19 vaccines, but the 60% of the U.S. death toll less than two years into the crisis could hit another heartbreaking milestone, 800,000, in a matter of days.

The increases are due almost entirely to the delta variant, though the omicron mutation has been detected in about 20 states and is sure to spread even more.ĭeaths are running close to 1,600 a day on average, back up to where they were in October. 22 to almost 119,000 a day this week, and hospitalizations are up 25% from a month ago. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. (AP) - The number of Americans fully vaccinated against COVID-19 reached 200 million Wednesday amid a dispiriting holiday-season spike in cases and hospitalizations that has hit even New England, one of the most highly inoculated corners of the country. 15, according to the CDC.ĬOVID cases spike even as US hits 200M vaccine milestone The earliest onset of symptoms of any of the first 40 or so cases was Nov. Some cases can become increasingly severe as days and weeks pass, and Walensky noted that the data is a very early, first glimpse of U.S. One person was hospitalized, but no deaths have been reported, CDC officials said. She said “the disease is mild” in almost all of the cases seen so far, with reported symptoms mainly cough, congestion and fatigue. And that’s really what motivated the decision to expand our guidance,” Walensky said, referencing the recent approval of boosters for all adults.

We want to make sure we bolster everybody’s immunity.

“What we generally know is the more mutations a variant has, the higher level you need your immunity to be.

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