美国约翰斯·霍普金斯大学13日发布的新冠疫情最新统计数据显示，美国累计确诊病例超过5000万例，累计死亡病例逼近80万例。这意味着，每7个美国人就有超过1人感染新冠肺炎。美国目前是全球累计确诊病例数和累计死亡病例数最多的国家。美国人口占全球总人口不到5%，确诊病例却超过了全球的18%。据路透社报道，由于高传染力的德尔塔变异株在全美快速传播，美国新冠感染率在下降约两个月后，再次激增，单日新增确诊病例数连创新高。据华盛顿邮报统计，美国至少30个州已经发现奥密克戎变异株病例。不过美国联邦疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）主任瓦伦斯基表示,德尔塔变异株仍占目前新冠病例数的99%。
The U.S. total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 50 million on Monday, according to Johns Hopkins University.After about two months of declining infections, the U.S. has reported daily increases for the past two weeks, driven by the more easily transmitted Delta variant.The Omicron variant has also been identified in at least 30 states, according to a Washington Post tally. But the Delta variant still accounts for 99 percent of current COVID cases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky has said.美CDC数据显示，全美新冠死者中，约59万人是65岁以上老年人。美国人口普查局数据显示，全美的65岁以上老年人约5410万，也就是说，65岁以上老年人，每100个人已经有1人死于新冠。《纽约时报》报道称，新冠已经成为65岁以上老人的第三大死因，仅次于心脏病和癌症，超过糖尿病、意外、阿尔茨海默症等。2020年初以来，13%的老年人死于新冠。
One in every 100 Americans over the age of 65 has now died from coronavirus, data from the CDC shows.The latest CDC data from last week shows that nearly 590,089 people over 65 have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, out of 54.1 million total individuals making up that population group, according to US Census Bureau figures. COVID-19 has now become the third leading cause of death among Americans aged 65 and older, after heart disease and cancer. It has been responsible for about 13 percent of all deaths in that age group since the beginning of 2020, more than diabetes, accidents, Alzheimer’s disease or dementia.尽管美国疫情形势严峻，在两党政治对立、社会分裂的背景下，美国反科学浪潮却异常高涨。凯泽家族基金会（KFF） 于11月选取了8则新冠假信息进行民调，结果显示， 78%的美国成年人听过至少一则假消息，并信以为真或无法确定其真实性。受访者对新冠假消息的信任程度与其是否接种疫苗和党派立场有所关联，其中未接种疫苗的成年人和共和党人更容易相信假消息。The latest KFF survey conducted in November finds that belief in pandemic-related misinformation is widespread, with 78 percent of adults saying they have heard at least one of eight different false statements about COVID-19 and that they believe it to be true or are unsure if it is true or false.Belief in COVID-19 misinformation is correlated with both vaccination status and partisanship, with unvaccinated adults and Republicans much more likely to believe or be unsure about false statements compared to vaccinated adults and Democrats.美国是全球最大的疫苗生产国之一，也是最早开始为民众接种疫苗的国家之一，然而截至12日，美国仅有60.8%的民众完全接种疫苗，疫苗接种率落后于许多国家。中国工程院院士钟南山11日在大湾区科学论坛生命科学分论坛上表示，中国完成全程接种的人口已达到11.5亿，占全国人口的81.9%。The CDC says 60.8 percent of the total U.S. population has been fully vaccinated as of December 12, after the first vaccine was authorized in mid-December 2020.疫情政治化使得美国民众在配合抗疫政策方面也出现两极分化现象，不少民众怀疑并反对接种疫苗，严重影响了美国疫苗接种速度。美国各地反对强制接种疫苗的抗议活动时有发生，支持戴口罩、打疫苗的人士甚至会受到反疫苗群体威胁乃至跟踪骚扰。美国加州医学理事会主席克里斯蒂娜·劳森是一名坚定的新冠疫苗支持者，曾多次表示接种新冠疫苗是预防重症和死亡的安全有效的途径。近日，克里斯蒂娜·劳森对外表示，自己遭到了反疫苗群体的跟踪和骚扰。本月6日，有4名男子使用无人机对她的住所进行监视，观察她以及家人的一举一动。此外，这些男子还驾车尾随劳森到工作单位。据劳森说，当她下班走到停车场准备回家时，有4名男子从车内跳出，手持录像设备朝她拍摄，并与劳森进行对峙。据她了解，这些人来自一个名为“美国前线医生”的组织，这一组织多次公开反对新冠疫苗接种，还散布关于新冠肺炎治疗方法的虚假信息，部分民众对他们深信不疑。Kristina Lawson, president of California's medical board, said in a Twitter thread Wednesday that she was followed from her home to work Monday, where a white SUV parked across from her in a garage near her office at a law firm. At the end of the day when she was returning to her car, four men got out of the car and confronted her with anti-vaccine-related questions and recording equipment in the dark parking garage.The men identified themselves as representatives of America's Frontline Doctors, a right-wing organization that has been discredited for spreading Coronavirus misinformation, such as unproven treatments and anti-vaccine rhetoric.