The coronavirus is not over yet; It kills 300 people every day in the United States
Many people see the coronavirus as a thing of the past because people are used to it and countries have passed measures to prevent the virus, but it is still a threat.
On Sunday, March 26, 2023, US media reported that some countries are still having problems with the final dose of the vaccine, but Canada and Britain are among the countries that have given the final dose. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, 300 people, mostly the elderly, die daily from the virus.
In the United States, 53 million people over the age of 65, or 16 percent of the population, experts believe that the coronavirus will affect them more. In addition, seven million people in the United States have chronic illnesses, making it seriously difficult for them to cope with infection.
It is unclear whether the United States will give its people the final dose of the vaccine; But according to US media, the country may be giving its people a new flu vaccine.
In early March 2023, the Senate approved a request by National Intelligence Director Avril Haines to make public documents related to a possible link between the coronavirus and a Chinese laboratory suspected of leaking the virus, meaning the bill has no choice Send it to the White House for Joe Biden to sign.
The outbreak of the coronavirus began in late 2019 in the eastern Chinese city of Wuhan and has killed nearly seven million people worldwide. According to official figures, more than one million people have died in the United States.
But health officials and US intelligence agencies still disagree on whether the virus was transmitted from animals to humans or leaked out of a laboratory in Wuhan.
The Energy Department says the virus may have been the result of a laboratory accident, consistent with the FBI's assessment and contrary to the results of other agencies.
Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, defended the leak theory in the Senate on Wednesday, but the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the National Institutes of Health agreed with the hypothesis that the virus was transmitted from an infected animal to humans.
“There is broad consensus in the intelligence community that the outbreak was not caused by a biological or genetic engineering weapon, but there is no consensus on whether it leaked from a laboratory,” Haines said.
When the Disclosure of Classified Coronavirus Documents Act was introduced in the Senate in February, Josh Hawley, co-author of the draft, said that anyone who questioned whether the virus originated in a lab was “silenced and labeled a conspiracy theorist.”
“Now it turns out that these intelligent skeptics are right. The American people deserve to know the truth,” Hawley said.
In a separate effort, Republicans in the House of Representatives on Friday introduced a bill that would allow U.S. citizens to sue China, while Beijing denies the leak theory and calls it a “massive distortion campaign.”
“We must finally get to the bottom of what happened and who was involved in this trap in order to bring justice to those who have suffered so much because of the coronavirus,” said Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey