Xinhua | Updated: 2021-07-25 07:49 Share CLOSE Lila Blanks holds the casket of her husband, Gregory Blanks, 50, who died of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), ahead of his funeral in San Felipe, Texas, US, Jan 26, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] LONDON - The United States is facing "the pandemic of the unvaccinated" amid a national surge of new COVID-19 infections, according to a report published in The Guardian. At least 99 percent of those in the United States who died of COVID-19 in the last six months had not been vaccinated, Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was quoted by The Guardian in a report published on Thursday as saying.