WASHINGTON: In an alarming forecast, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), projected a total of 530,000 to 559,000 Covid-19 deaths will be reported in the United States by March 13. The new forecast calculates that 8,400 to 18,500 new deaths will likely be reported in the week ending March 13, Xinhua news agency reported.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicts that the number of newly reported Covid-19 deaths will likely decrease over the next four weeks. It has also projected “widespread delays” in vaccine shipments and deliveries because of weather affecting a FedEx facility in Memphis and a UPS facility in Louisville, both vaccine shipping hubs. Now those projections appear to be coming true.
Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to trend downward in the US. But the CDC warns that coronavirus variants may lead to a "rapid rise" in Covid-19 infections.
The US has recorded over 27.83 million cases with more than 491,000 related deaths as of Thursday noon, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
In a separate report, Vice President Harris says that new hope that the global vaccine drive will speed up. Women leaving the workforce because of the pandemic have led to a “national emergency,”
Just as vaccine distribution was beginning to keep momentum in the United States, brutal winter weather is delaying the delivery of hundreds of thousands of doses across the country.
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