We don’t have the good surveillance system to keep us informed.” “With all our money, with all our know-how, we have dropped the ball. “We are flying blind,” Mokdad tells the newspaper.
The article then quotes Ali Mokdad, an epidemiologist at the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, who, readers are told, worked 2 decades for the CDC. The newspaper reports that “critically important data on vaccinations, infections, hospitalizations and deaths are scattered among local health departments, often out of date, hard to aggregate at the national level-and simply not up to the job of battling a highly transmissible and stealthy pathogen.”
Only 31% of pregnant individuals have been fully vaccinated.Ī question hanging over the data supplied by CDC and all the other agencies and organizations tracking COVID-19 was raised by the Washington Post yesterday: Just how much can those data be trusted? The headline on the Washington Post article pulls no punches: “Messy, Incomplete U.S. Also, August had been the deadliest month for pregnant women, according to the CDC, which last week issued an urgent health advisory to health care providers that they encourage pregnant women to get vaccinated. The safest way to celebrate is virtually, with people who live with you, or outside and at least 6 feet apart from others.”Īnother reminder about just how much of a toll COVID-19 has taken on Americans came yesterday, after Reuters crunched data and announced that over 700,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 703,672 to be exact. The agency suggests that individuals shouldn’t travel unless they are fully vaccinated and reminded Americans that “attending gatherings to celebrate events and holidays increases your risk of getting and spreading COVID-19. We’ve just got to concentrating on continuing to get those numbers down and not try to jump ahead by weeks or months and say what we’re going to do at a particular time.”įauci’s comments came just 2 days after the CDC updated guidelines on how Americans should approach the holiday season. Fauci was asked yesterday on Face the Nation if that should be the case this year, to which he responded that “it’s just too soon to tell. COVID-19 hospitalizations dropped from 12,330 to 8507 in the same period, a 31% decline.Īnother phrase in the zeitgeist is “I’ll be Home for Christmas,” made famous by Bing Crosby. The United States has averaged 110,232 daily cases as of September 27, as opposed to 159,515 as of August 27, according to the CDC. Since late August, COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations have declined about 30%. Still, there’s plenty to feel hopeful about. So, even though Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, indicated to CBS’s Face the Nation yesterday that we may have finally turned the corner on this 20-month-long pandemic that had been given new life by the Delta variant and that’s upended the world, Americans and the health care system cannot yet let its guard down. The clouds around which silver linings enshroud particularly hover over 15 states in which fewer than 50% of residents remain unvaccinated: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wyoming, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Unfortunately, about 70 million Americans who can get vaccinated have so far not done so. This year, however, we have the vaccines, which will prevent another surge, right? Well, maybe. The holiday season last year caused a huge COVID-19 surge, one that had been predicted by many medical experts, but which many people nonetheless disregarded. And to use the phrase planted in the zeitgeist by Game of Thrones, “winter is coming.”
So, while the rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths have plummeted in recent weeks and medical experts express cautious optimism that the worst may be over, there’s still a lot we don’t know about COVID-19. CDC will share additional guidance soon."Įvery silver lining has its cloud, unfortunately.
Cdc covid holiday guidance update#
The page had a technical update on Friday, but doesn’t reflect the CDC’s guidance ahead of this upcoming holiday season. CDC spokeswoman reportedly said in a statement that “the content is in the process of being updated by CDC to reflect current guidance ahead of this holiday season. Various news outlets report that the content on holiday guidance has been removed from the the CDC website.
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