During a visit to Cincinnati, Ohio, Biden argued that the public health crisis has become, first of all, a dire situation for those who are not vaccinated, while the spread of the Delta variant has led to an increase in the number of infections caused by All countries.
“We have a pandemic for those who haven’t been vaccinated yet – it’s that simple,” said Biden, quoted by the Associated Press (AP) news agency.
The President of the United States expressed concern that so many Americans are reluctant to receive the vaccine.
“If they get vaccinated, they won’t be hospitalized, they won’t be in intensive care, and they won’t die,” he said.
“Therefore, it is very important that we all act like Americans who care about our fellow citizens,” he said.
In the United States, the number of COVID-19 cases has nearly tripled in the past two weeks, but virtually all hospitalizations and deaths involve people who have not been vaccinated.
According to Johns Hopkins University, on Tuesday, the average daily number of new cases in the previous seven days rose to more than 37,000 from less than 13,700 on July 6.
Experts blame the more infectious Delta variant and the slowdown in vaccinations.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 56.2% of Americans have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
The United States is the country with the highest number of cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic, with over 34 million infections and over 609,000 deaths.
According to the latest report from Agence France-Presse, the covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 4,119,920 deaths worldwide out of more than 191.3 million cases of the novel coronavirus.
The respiratory illness is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently variants identified in countries such as the UK, India, South Africa, Brazil and Peru.
