Original title: Florida and Alabama stop updating daily COVID-19 epidemic data source: CCTV news client
According to a report on the US consumer news and business channel (CNBC) on June 8, with the continuous increase in the vaccination rate of COVID-19 and the decline in the number of new cases of COVID-19, US states have begun to turn to the "next stage" of the COVID-19 epidemic. Florida and Alabama recently announced that they will no longer update COVID-19 's confirmed cases and death reports every day. Alabama will instead update confirmed and death data three times a week, and vaccination data twice a week. Florida instead updates its data on confirmed cases and deaths once a week.
However, public health experts warn that loosening data reporting could be risky, given the speed at which outbreaks have changed at different points in the past year. Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at Columbia University, Wafa El-Sadr (Wafaa El-Sadr), pointed out that you should not just imagine that the epidemic will not get worse. Infection levels in New York City were very low last summer, but there was a surge in infection cases in winter.
According to (CDC) of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 36 per cent of residents in Alabama have completed a single shot of COVID-19 vaccination, one of the lowest vaccination rates in the United States. The proportion of Florida's single-dose vaccinated population is 50%, which is very close to the 52% of the national single-dose vaccinated population in the United States, but still lags behind the average. (CCTV reporter Xu Jie)