Health Care in the United States and COVID-19: the Fight Continues

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the United States and the world. If, as of May 2021, there are more than 33 million Americans in the United States, i.e. each of 10 were infected with severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was confirmed by relevant documents, then on August 5 of this year, 35 392 660 confirmed cases of the disease were recorded in the country (200 670 720 worldwide), 615 144 confirmed deaths in the United States (4,263,828 worldwide) and 347,907,126 vaccine doses administered in the United States (4,303,303,528 worldwide). Moreover, it is noted that the true percentage of the infected population may never be known with certainty, given the large proportion of unreported cases, but this number is likely significantly higher than the number reported in official reports. The figures testify to the scale of the existing acute crisis state of affairs in the sensitive social sphere - health care, which is difficult to isolate into one segment of the life of society and the country.