President Biden said the 'pandemic is over' in an interview on Sunday. Here's what the data says.
"The pandemic is over," he said."We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over. If you notice, no one's wearing masks. Everybody seems to be in pretty good shape, and so I think it's changing, and I think [the Detroit Auto show resuming after three years] is a perfect example of it."
The National Institutes of Health defines a pandemic as"an epidemic of disease, or other health condition, that occurs over a widespread area and usually affects a sizable part of the population."Remarkable science: How to prepare for the fall season of infectious diseases Globally, there have been about 612 million cases of coronavirus. The number of new daily cases peaked in January for many countries, including the U.S. , France and India , according to Our World in Data, an international organization of scientists.
We've come a long way since then – on Saturday, there were about 493,000 cases worldwide – but there are still thousands of cases being detected every day, and many estimates could be off, as many cases are going unreported. From Aug. 16 to Sept. 17, there were 19.4 million new cases worldwide, with some of the most significant increases happening in Japan , Taiwan and Hong Kong . The U.S. had a 3% increase in cases during that time period, equivalent to 2.5 million incidents.In Japan, there is a daily cap on the number of people who can arrive in the country and individual tourist visits have been banned, though those guidelines are expected to be reversed soon. Additionally, on Sep.
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