Covid-19 cases are climbing in the upper Midwest, Southwest and parts of the Northeast—an unwelcome turn just ahead of Thanksgiving holiday travel and indoor gatherings
Covid-19 cases are climbing in places like the upper Midwest, Southwest and parts of the Northeast, hindering thetriggered by the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus.
“Right now we find ourselves in a really truly alarming spike in cases,” Jan Malcolm, commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Health, said at a briefing last week. States widely report the bulk of Covid-19 hospitalizations remain among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated patients, even as some states show fully vaccinated people have become a rising share of the mix.Travelers who meet certain requirements will be allowed to enter the U.S. beginning Nov. 8. WSJ’s Allison Pohle explains what these new rules mean. Photo: Seth Wenig/Associated Press
The problem is mainly the still-unvaccinated population in the U.S., and waning immunity among people who got vaccine shots early on and now should get boosters, said Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif. The Delta-fueled surge that began over the summer appeared to peak in early September, when the nation averaged more than 160,000 new cases a day. The cool-off in the South helped relieve some pressure, likely due in part to the surge in infections also building up more immunity in the population, health experts say.Photo:The price was heavy. The U.S. reported more than 150,000 Covid-19 deaths over the past four months, bringing the pandemic total of known Covid-19 deaths to more than 760,000.
Health authorities say the Delta variant is easily finding pockets of still-unvaccinated people, even in some of the most-vaccinated places, like Vermont, where about 72% of the population is fully inoculated.
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