美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）报道称，德尔塔毒株在美国持续肆虐，该国在抗击新冠疫情斗争中又遭遇严峻“里程碑”：美国新冠死亡人数超过66万，相当于每500个美国人中就有1人死于新冠。

 

As of Tuesday night, 663,913 people in the US have died of Covid-19, according to Johns Hopkins University data. According to the US Census¹ Bureau, the US population as of April 2020 was 331.4 million.

根据约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的数据，截至9月14日晚，美国累计新冠肺炎死亡病例663913例。根据美国人口普查局的数据，截至2020年4月，美国人口为3.314亿。

 

 

It's a sobering toll² that comes as hospitals in the US are struggling to keep up with the volume of patients and more children are grappling with the virus. In hopes of managing the spread and preventing more unnecessary deaths, officials are implementing³ mandates⁴ for vaccinations⁵ in workplaces and masking in schools.

这是一个令人警醒的数字，面对大量的病患和越来越多的儿童感染病例，美国的医院不堪重负。为控制疫情传播，防止更多不必要的死亡，官员们正在强制要求工作场所人员接种疫苗，并在学校佩戴口罩。

 

 

They're fighting against daily case, hospitalization and death rates that jumped after the early summer as the highly contagious⁶ Delta⁷ variant⁸ became dominant⁹.

自初夏以来，由于高度传染性的德尔塔变种成为主流，美国的新增病例、住院病例和死亡率持续增长。

 

 

The country averaged more than 152,300 new Covid-19 cases each day over the past week as of Tuesday -- more than 13 times than what it was on June 22, when the average was at its lowest of 2021 (11,303 daily), according to Johns Hopkins University data.

根据约翰斯·霍普金斯大学的数据，截至9月14日，过去一周，美国平均每天新增病例超过15.23万例，是2021年单日新增病例数最低的6月22日(11303例)的13倍以上。

 

 

The US averaged 1,805 new Covid-19 deaths each day over a week as of Tuesday -- significantly higher than the low average of the year (218) reached July 5, according to Johns Hopkins.

截至9月14日的一周时间内，美国日均新增新冠死亡病例达到1805例，远远高于7月5日报告的今年最低单日新增死亡病例数量(218例)。

 

With only 54% of the population fully¹⁰ vaccinated¹¹, the rate of people initiating¹² vaccinations each day (more than 341,900) is a 4% drop from last week and 28% drop from a month earlier, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.

根据美国疾病控制和预防中心的数据，美国疫苗接种率只有54%，每天接种疫苗的人数（超过341900人）比上周下降了4%，比一个月前下降了28%。

 

 

Health experts have hailed vaccinations as the best source of protection against the virus, noting that the majority of people hospitalized with and killed by Covid-19 are unvaccinated. In Pennsylvania, from January 1 to September 7, 97% of the state's Covid-19 deaths were among unvaccinated people, Pennsylvania's acting¹³ secretary of health said Tuesday.

卫生专家表示，接种疫苗是预防新冠病毒的最佳方法，并指出，大多数新冠住院病例和死亡病例都没有接种疫苗。宾夕法尼亚州代理卫生部长9月14日表示，从1月1日到9月7日，该州97%的新冠肺炎死亡病例是未接种疫苗的人群。

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