Jakarta, The Indonesia Post – The low vaccination rate in the United States is a clear reason that the Omicron variant has “more potential to kill Americans,” the Daily Beast news website said.
Several countries have passed the wave of Omicron spread with relatively low numbers of severe cases and deaths despite an increase in cases, the report said, citing Singapore and South Africa as examples.
However, the US has not recorded an equal “split” between the number of infections and deaths, mainly due to low vaccination rates, with only 63 percent of Americans having had the full course of vaccinations, and another 37 percent having received booster vaccine shots, he added. that report.
“The concern is that once the spread hits an older segment of the population, hospitalization and death rates are likely to increase,” said Edwin Michael, an epidemiologist at the Center for Global Health Infectious Disease Research at the University of South Florida. (ojn/bbs)
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