US Secretary of Health: “Covid-19 is now a near-unvaccinated epidemic” | Globalism

Minister of Health United State, Xavier Becerra, stressed that progress in management Vaccines against him COVID-19 In the country they have allowed this to become a “quasi-pandemic of the unvaccinated”.

He confirmed that US President Joe Biden is keeping his promises to end the pandemic when he has just completed his first year in the White House.

It is almost a pandemic for those without a vaccine. You are 20 times more likely to die if you do not have a vaccine. He warned that if you do not have the vaccine, you risk your health, visit the hospital and even death.”

For this reason, he challenged people who spread “false information” about vaccines, an item the White House is working on.

He acknowledged in this sense that progress is not proceeding as quickly as expected, since the proportion of the population fully vaccinated is 63% in the United States, which is lower than levels recorded in Europe, where the figure exceeds 80%.

“When (Biden) took office, less than 1% were vaccinated, there are now more than 200 million people with two doses of the vaccine. From where we started, to where we are, we’ve progressed,” he said.

Besera also stressed that “these people did not have to pay a penny”, which gave preference in particular to minorities such as Latin Americans in the United States.

He also highlighted the shipment in the coming days without the cost of millions of home checks on homes and the delivery of N95 masks at various locations across the country by the Biden administration.

The United States is the country hardest hit by the pandemic with more than 69 million cases of COVID-19 and more than 860,000 deaths, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. While O’Micron’s advances have put pressure on hospitals.