BRACE FOR MORE

The United States is now averaging more than 100,000 new COVID-19 cases every day, the highest in almost six months, according to the JHU data. Because it can take days or weeks for some COVID-19 cases to lead to hospitalizations or deaths, doctors are bracing for the serious scenarios in 2020, according to local media reports.

US President Joe Biden is pushing harder on vaccines and masks as COVID-19 cases are surging across the country due to the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. Scientists say the Delta variant is as contagious as chicken pox, with each infected person potentially infecting eight or nine other people.

The Delta variant accounts for an estimated 93.4 percent of all new pandemic cases in the United States during the last two weeks of July, according to figures published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday.

According to the JHU data, America kept beating all other countries with over 616,000 coronavirus deaths and more than 35 million infections as of Sunday afternoon. Enditem