United States: President Joe Biden has been tested positive for COVID- 19 history and marking his third bout with the contagion. Following a crusade event in Las Vegas, the 81- time-old chairman passed testing and is now taking the antiviral drug Paxlovid which is a stopgap for him to get relieve of this.
He will keep himself – insulate in Delaware as he recovers. According to the White House doctor , Biden’s symptoms are mild, including a watery nose, dry cough, and general malaise. His respiratory rate, body temperature, and blood oxygen position are reported to be normal.
Rising COVID-19 Cases and Risks
As reported in verywellhealth, The CDC is no longer tracking COVID case counts only the hospitalizations and deaths from the virus , however the agency recently said that the infection rates are growing in the particular 45 states and territories and also the wastewater surveillance also indicates that the cases are on the rise nationwide.
And according to the William Schaffner MD a professor of the infectious disease at Vanderbilt University and chair for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases said that the COVID cases are literally tend to spike this summer.
“Omicron subvariants are very contagious and are spreading rather widely, creating a fair amount of relatively mild infection. But in that context, it will strike some people such as the president, who are older, some who are frail, some who are immune compromised, who then stand an increased risk of hospitalization,” Schaffner told Verywell.
Older adults are more at risk:
In all the pandemic time older adults have literally faced an outsized risk of really becoming severely sick and even dying as compared to other younger adults.
According to the CDC data concluded in June per every 100,000 Americans older than almost 75 and about four died with COVID and 66 were hospitalized and for all the other age groups the COVID death rate last month was less than 1 per 100,000 and the risk of severe COVID is still majorly lower than today than it was in 2020 and really thanks to the vaccines and antiviral medications.
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