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Coronavirus Alert: Fauci Blasts Sen. Paul: ‘If Anyone Is Lying, It Is You,' Delta Variant Sweeps U.S. as Cases Jump Nearly 200 Percent, Several Inoculated Congressional Staffers Test Positive, Pet Owners Often Pass Virus to Cats and Dogs

Here is the latest news, data, and expert insight在Covid-19-19大流行中。

The约翰·霍普金斯冠状病毒资源中心maintains an ongoing count of theCOVID-19cases and deaths in the United States and worldwide. As of 6:37 p.m. on July 21, 2021, the tally is:

Total cases worldwide: 191,800,548 (up from 191,223,620 Tuesday)

Total deaths worldwide: 4,123,206 (up from 4,101,695 Tuesday)

Total cases in the United States: 34,210,391 (up from 34,154,557 Tuesday)

Total deaths in the United States: 609,797 (up from 609,425 Tuesday)

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Fauci博士抨击了参议员保罗：“您不知道您在说什么。”NBC News reported美国国家过敏和传染病研究所主任安东尼·富奇（Anthony Fauci）在周二的参议院听证会上进行了激烈的交流时，他告诉参议员兰德·保罗（Rand Paul），“您不知道您在说什么，我坦率地说，我想正式这样说。参议员，如果有人躺在这里，就是你。”Fauci的谴责是为了回应保罗的指控，即福奇向国会撒谎，即国立卫生研究院在中国武汉资助研究中扮演的角色。

“This is a pattern that Senator Paul has been doing at multiple hearings based on no reality,” Fauci said. “I have not lied. Case closed.”

目前，三角洲的变体占美国新案件的83％。During aSenate health committee hearing on Tuesday主任,医学博士,罗谢尔Walensky英里之分ers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that the highly transmissible delta variant now accounts for about 83 percent of all new infections in the United States — a significant increase from the beginning of July when the variant was responsible for just over half of all new cases.

纽约时报COVID data tracker表明，截至周三，美国案件在两周内飙升了近200％。

Over 91 million Americans live in areas with high infections rates.CNN analysisof CDC data indicated that about 28 percent of the U.S. population, or more than 91 million people, live in a county considered to have a high rate of COVID-19 transmission. TheCDC’s COVID Data Trackershows that only 48.7 percent of the total U.S. population is fully vaccinated against the virus. The country averaged 37,055 new cases a day across a week as of Tuesday, a 54 percent jump over the prior week and more than two and a half times the average recorded about two weeks ago.

More Republicans are urging vaccination.The Washington Postsaidthat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday joined a the rising chorus of GOP leaders and pundits who are now stressing the need for unvaccinated Americans to receive coronavirus shots and warning that the country could reverse its progress inmoving onfrom the pandemic. On Monday, conservative newscaster Sean Hannity — who had previously called the virus a “hoax” — told Fox News viewers, “I can’t say it enough. Enough people have died. We don’t need any more death. And it absolutely makes sense for many Americans to get vaccinated. I believe in science. I believe in the science of vaccination.”

Several vaccinated Congressional aides have tested positive.Brian P. Monahan, MD, the attending physician of the Capitol, wrote in amemo obtained by the DailyMailthat “several” Congressional aides who have been vaccinated have tested positive for COVID-19. Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan announced on Monday he had tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated.

还，this week a White House staffer and an aide to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi revealed that they had tested positive.

白宫新闻秘书詹·帕萨基（Jen Psaki）周二确认，政府还有其他突破性案件，但拒绝提供细节或数字，称他们只承诺揭示高级白宫工作人员中的案件。

国家新闻

The United States is warning against travel to England.The U.S. State Department and the CDC on Monday both issued their highest warnings against travel to the United Kingdom because of a rising number of COVID-19 cases in that country,as Reuters reported。Recently, daily infections in England have been surpassing 50,000. Since March 2020, the United States has barred nearly all non-U.S. citizens who have recently been in the United Kingdom from entering the United States. Americans can visit Britain, however, if they quarantine for 10 days upon arrival and take two COVID-19 tests.

从周一开始，英格兰取消了其面具授权并取消了规则，因此夜总会和其他室内场所可以充分运作，according to France24。正如所谓的“自由日”开始的那样，总理鲍里斯·约翰逊（Boris Johnson）在卫生部长的阳性测试后，将自己置于自我方面。

In response to critics questioning if England is opening too soon, Johnson said, “If we don’t do it now, we’ve got to ask ourselves, when will we ever do it? So this is the right moment, but we’ve got to do it cautiously.”

The United States this week also revised guidance on traveling Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Fiji, and the British Virgin Islands, warning Americans of increased COVID-19 risk in those regions.

A former vax skeptic warned that rejecting the shot is like "playing Russian roulette with your life."In aninterview with CBS News, 42-year-old Lamonte Boyd, a married father of three, said he thought the vaccine was “a hoax” and didn't listen to doctors or even his wife when she got vaccinated and told him he should do the same. Boyd is now hospitalized at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He developedpneumoniain both lungs and is still struggling to breathe, often gasping for air.

“I would tell those who don't want to take the vaccines: you playing Russian roulette with your life,” said Boyd.

Costco has reversed its plans to eliminate senior shopping hours.宣布Costco将消除特殊的高级购物时间后的几周，以帮助确保在大流行期间的安全性超市链条上的安全性toldUSA Todayon Tuesdaythat it would maintain hours for seniors Tuesdays and Thursdays, until further notice.

女演员兼流行歌星奥利维亚·罗德里戈（Olivia Rodrigo）将于周三访问白宫，以帮助年轻人接种疫苗，以疫苗接种Covid-19。https://t.co/0GM9eWqk11
- NBC新闻（@NBCNews）2021年7月13日

State Update

科学家预测，阿肯色州的案件“愤怒”。Based on projections released Tuesday by the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, scientists there say that surging COVID-19 cases in the state, fueled by the delta variant, are creating “a raging forest fire that will grow in size and strength,”according to Kark.com。

Florida accounts for 20 percent of new cases.Analysis of state health data from the HuffPostshows that 20 percent of all new COVID-19 infections are now centered in Florida. Cases there surged to nearly 46,000 this week — double the number from the week before.

UF Health in Jacksonville said it broke its record for most hospitalized COVID-19 patients Monday when the number reached 126 — a 40 percent rise from the day before,according to NBC News。

Around the World

印度尼西亚的日常案例数在印度和巴西上升。The Guardiansaid on Sundaythis week that Indonesia is tallying more daily COVID-19 infections than India and Brazil as the delta strain sweeps across southeast Asia. In Malaysia, shipping containers have been sent to hospitals because their morgues are so overwhelmed. In Thailand, field hospitals are being built at the capital’s two airports. Myanmar is desperately pleading on social media for oxygen.

The surge in Iran has triggered a lockdown.TheCenter for Infectious Disease Research and Policy saidthat Iran reported a record 27,444 new cases on Tuesday, topping the previous high from mid-April. With infections soaring in Iran, health officials there ordered a weeklong lockdown for Tehran, the country's capital.

美国奥运会排球运动员的测试阳性。AsNBC News reported on Wednesday，泰勒·克拉布（Taylor Crabb）是一名美国海滩排球运动员，他有望参加东京奥运会的比赛，他的冠状病毒呈阳性，就在周五比赛开始前几天。据路透社汇编的一项统计，到目前为止，近80人与奥林匹克运动会有关，包括六名运动员，对Covid-19的呈阳性。

加拿大边境定于8月9日重新开放。根据Politico的说法, '迷你ster Justin Trudeau announced Monday that Canada will open its border to fully vaccinated U.S. travelers starting August 9. The 5,525-mile border between the United States and Canada has been closed to nonessential travel since March 2020. Canada will welcome fully vaccinated visitors from other countries starting September 7.

Vaccine and Research News

Infected pet owners often give their pets COVID-19.New unpublished studies presented at theEuropean Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseasesshow that dogs and cats with COVID-19-positive owners frequently have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies,根据报告Scientific American。还，纽约时报周二了astudy published in June in the journal毒性suggesting that household cats are more susceptible than dogs to a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Prescriptions for kids dropped during pandemic.Research from the University of Michigan published in July in the journalPediatricsrevealed that drug prescriptions for children in the United States fell by more than one-quarter in the first eight months of the pandemic, with the biggest drops in medications used to treat infections and cold symptoms. “Whether reductions in dispensing of infection-related drugs are temporary or sustained will be important to monitor going forward,” concluded the authors.

About 1.5 million children have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19.Astudy published in柳叶刀on Tuesday estimated that 1,562,000 children worldwide experienced the death of at least one primary or secondary caregiver between March 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021. Between 2 and 5 times more children had deceased fathers than deceased mothers. “Orphanhood and caregiver deaths are a hidden pandemic resulting from COVID-19-associated deaths,” concluded the authors. “Accelerating equitable vaccine delivery is key to prevention.”

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ByChristina Vogt 医学上的审查,贾斯汀·劳伯（Justin Laube），医学博士

Reviewed: 2021年4月27日