6:11 pm UTC Mar. 14, 2021
Far fewer people are dying from COVID-19 today than in January, but more than 1,000 Americans die from the disease every day – alone at home or in hospitals, gasping for air, suffering heart attacks or slipping silently away.
Though treatment for the sickest patients has improved since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic a year ago, roughly 20% of patients sick enough to be hospitalized still end up in intensive care – a figure that hasn t changed in the past year, said Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon and president and CEO of the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, the research arm of Northwell Health, New York’s largest health care provider.
Those eagerly awaited stimulus payments and vaccinations should be accelerating this week as the U.S. hopes to gain ground on the relentless pandemic.
Dr. Anthony Fauci told CNN s State of the Union on Sunday that federal restrictions will be much more liberal and the U.S. could see a considerable degree of normality by the Fourth of July if U.S. cases drop as more Americans are vaccinated. But he also warned, on Fox News Sunday, that the U.S. must gradually lift restrictions or risk a wide-ranging lockdown to halt another surge.
Now the nation just needs former President Donald Trump to help out, Fauci says.
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