COVID-19 Pandemic Cases on the Rise Across the United States
AGN.News
April 14, 2021
ATLANTA – It has been 13 months since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020. What does that mean?
Pandemic means (Pan means ‘all’ and demic means ‘local people’) there is an epidemic of an infectious disease that has spread across a large region, for instance multiple continents or worldwide, affecting a substantial number of local people.
What does COVID-19 mean? The CO stands for corona, VI stands for virus, D stands for disease and 19 stands for when the outbreak was first identified (31 December 2019). We’re in a COVID-19 pandemic!
The CDC and Johns Hopkins CSSE confirms COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim lives across the United States. There were 560,310 deaths in the United States to date. That’s nearly 61,000 since February 22, 2021. New cases and deaths continue to rise.
Total number of cases to date exceeded 31,138,417 as of yesterday. Florida had 39, 465 new cases in the last 7 days. New Jersey had 25, 047 new cases in the last 7 days. Michigan had 50,983 new cases in the last 7 days. Pennsylvania had 30,024 new cases in the last 7 days. New York had 26,047 new cases in the last 7 days.
On March 11, 2021, the first anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization, President Joe Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus relief package he proposed and lobbied for that aimed to speed up the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession. The package included direct payments to most Americans, an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine distribution and school reopenings, support for small businesses and state and local governments, and expansions of health insurance subsidies and the child tax credit.
President Joe Biden continues to stress the value of wearing a mask and other CDC guidelines. He says he’s doing everything he can as president and all Americans need to do their part. Doing so could mean by July 4th we could all have backyard barbecue with friends and family without masks.
Wearing a mask could help mitigate the virus, we are told. Realizing the virus was airborne meant much more would be needed to stop the spread. The CDC prioritized the flow of mitigating information designed to protect the population from this newly discovered deadly airborne respiratory coronavirus disease.
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov) continues to stress the COVID-19 pandemic is not under control simply because vaccines are available. This coronavirus has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States and millions worldwide.
“More than vaccines are needed to overcome this pandemic” says the CDC. Personal responsibility is essential as we work to overcome this pandemic.
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COVID-19 PREVENTION
Everyone is being urged by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC.gov) to get vaccinated, wear masks, practice social distancing, and wash hands as a way to cut down on the transmission rate.
For more information on local responses to the novel coronavirus also called … COVID-19, contact your local healthcare provider, visit coronavirus.gov or visit cdc.gov for the United States response to the coronavirus.
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