Not vaccinating against COVID-19 is like drunk drilling, says a health expert

(CNN) -- Dado que Estados Unidos tiene un promedio de más de 1.000 muertes diarias por el covid-19, no vacunarse es similar a conducir en estado de ebriedad, dijo el viernes un experto en salud.

"We need to start talking about the option of staying without vaccinating is like the option to leave and drive intoxicated," said Dra.Leana Wen, CNN medical analyst, Wolf Blitzer de CNN.

Wen's comments occur after the Joe Biden government announced on Thursday new vaccination standards against COVID-19 and ordered the Labor Department to demand all companies with 100 or more employees who make sure their workersthey are vaccinated or submitted once a week.President Joe Biden also signed a decree that requires that all government employees receive their vaccines against COVID-19, without the possibility of submitting periodic evidence to not do so.

And although some Republican officials have criticized their measure for overreach, health experts say that the president should have implemented stricter measures to stop the recent increase in Covid-19 cases.

"From a public health perspective, it is not an exaggeration at all.And in fact, I wish they would leave before and go further, "Wen said."We are in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in our lives.We have more than a thousand Americans who die every day.We, as a society, establish laws that protect people's health and well -being at all times ".

An average of 1.110 people died in the US.UU.By COVID-19 every day during the last week, according to data from the Centers for the Control and Prevention of EE diseases.UU.(CDC).The death rate since the end of August is the highest since the beginning of March.

While 73.5% of people 12 years and older have vaccinated at least one dose, dozens of millions of eligible beneficiaries are still not vaccinated, since the Delta Variant of the Coronavirus, highly contagious, continues to occupy areas of the country.About 62% of people from the same age group were completely vaccinated for Friday.

"A vast minority of Americans resists vaccination, but that's where the virus has been circulating," CNN medical analyst Jonathan Reiner said on Friday, Don Lemon from CNN."We live in a country that has rules.You can't smoke in most United States buildings and you can't drive drunk.You can't smoke on airplanes.And you can't blow the virus to the face.

"Thus it has to be in this country.And if you are going to be a persistent threat to public health by denying you to vaccinate yourself, your actions have consequences, and the consequences may not be able to work on your work ".

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And as for those who have not yet received their vaccines, it is not too late to convince them, the DR said Friday.Jerome Adams, former Health Director of the Trump Government.

"We need to remember that most of these people are not what I call 'vaccines resistant', some people say 'anti-vax', I find that this term is pejorative," Adams told John Berman from CNN."Most of these people are in the mobile environment.They are renewing of vaccines.I discovered that when I talk to you with compassion and empathy, over time I can convince many of them to get vaccinated ".

Health systems are under pressure

Six EE states.UU.They saw at least an increase of 10% in new cases of COVID-19 last week compared to the previous week, according to the data of the Johns Hopkins University on Friday, while the other states did not see a change or experienced a decreaseTotal cases.

Alabama, one of the states that saw the recent fall in new cases, now faces a shortage of 60 beds of intensive care units, an increase of 20 since last Friday, said state health official, DR, DR.Scott Harris.

There are 60 patients "who are receiving intensive care because they have a chronic disease and, nevertheless, they do not have an ICU bed," Harris said Friday.

"They are being treated in an emergency department or in a bed in the room that has become an UCI room or a stretcher in the hall," Harris said.

Alabama reported Thursday 2.667 Hospitalizations for COVID-19 and 53 deaths, added.

In Western Virginia, 252 Covid-19 patients are in ICU and another 141 are with respirators, which marks the largest number of people hospitalized with the disease since the pandemic began, Governor Jim Justice Jim Justice said Friday.

"A high percentage of people in hospitals are not vaccinated," said Justice."We lost another 38 people since Wednesday.We will continue losing people in this increase without any questions, "he said.

Minnesota's health officials linked at least 69 cases of COVID-19 with the State Fair, according to a statement obtained by the State Department of Health by WCCO, AFILIADA DE CNN.The Minnesota State Fair website says that the event was held from August 25 to September 5 in Falcon Heights.

A heated debate about the orders of the use of masks

Meanwhile, the debate on the mandates of the use of masks remains heated in many states, especially with regard to schools.

In Kentucky, schools will have the option of demanding the use of masks, after the General Assembly annulled the governor's partial veto on that part of a bill related to Covid-19 rules in schools, officials say.

The governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, vetoed the part of the SB1 bill that would eliminate the orders of the use of masks for primary schools and secondary schools, and would let the school districts decide whether the use of covers is necessary, he reported in a meetingWith the media on Friday.

Beshear said that the recent rejection by the Senate of a mandate for the use of masks in schools throughout the state is an incorrect choice, and one that will reap harmful results.

"The requirement of the use of masks for schools is not just the right thing for our young people, especially those who are too young to even vaccinate," said Beshear."It's our best way to keep our children learning in the classroom".

Meanwhile, in Mississippi, Governor Tate Reeves said Thursday that Biden's vaccination plan is unconstitutional.

"A member of the government's executive branch does not have the authority to order something like this," said Reeves.

Lauren Mascarenhas, Melissa Alonso, Jaide García, Claudia Dominguez and Jennifer Feldman, Mirna Alsharif, Rebekah Ries and Liam Reilly de CNN contributed to this report to this report.