[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] - U.S. counties in the South and the West are seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases over the past seven days
- Counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Wyoming reported between 100 and 500 cases per 100,000 in the last week, compared to the national average of 23.9 cases per 100,000
- All five states have fully vaccinated 35% or fewer residents, lower than the national average, and only three counties between the five have fully vaccinated more than 50%
- Former FDA commissioner Dr Scott Gottlieb warns that he expects outbreaks of the Indian 'Delta' variant to rise in areas with low vaccination rates
- Previous studies have shown that two doses of COVID-19 vaccines are much more effective against the variant than one shot
- In the UK, the Delta variant has driven an explosion of coronavirus cases, causing numbers to spike by about 75% in one week
| Cases are one thing, but what matters is significantly high levels of hospitalizations and deaths. |
The virus is wreaking havoc in the UK too, where officials recorded more than 20,000 for the second day in a row
On Tuesday, 20,479 COVID-19 infections were reported , a 76 percent in the last week from the 11,625 that were recorded last Tuesday
This is a 1040 percent increase from 2,000 cases recorded in late April, when the Delta variant first took hold.
However, deaths remained low with 23 were recorded on Tuesday, which is down 14 percent from the 27 recorded last Tuesday.
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