Many Americans have welcomed the summer with the belief that Covid-19 will soon disappear, but then realize only how to live with it.

Americans are entering a disappointing period of pandemic, when they realize that Covid-19 cannot disappear.

We can't expect it to disappear so that never have to think about it, Emily Martin, epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, said.

This summer in the US starts with optimistic signs.

But only a few weeks later, the new outbreak appeared with the Delta strain spread quickly, causing many hospitals to face the risk of overload.

I used to think everything was good, Anthony Monteiro, 30 years old in Tampa, Florida, who provided medical equipment for hospitals, said.

About 130,000 new cases were reported in the US every day, nearly double the highest level last summer.

People wear a mask on the street in Lake Oswego, Oregon in August 11.

In the latest outbreak, the US has been equipped with high-efficiency vaccines to prevent the risk of severe illness and death.

The southern states with low vaccination rates are the most severely influenced in the new outbreak.

But most of the country remained open.

Louisiana and Oregon have restored regulations to wear masks.

In Jackson, Mississippi, mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba still holds the paragraph regulation after the CDC easing announcement in May. In recent days, when the number of cases of infections and hospitalization increased sharply, Mr. Lumumba announced employees

But some other officials do not support new restrictions or worry that control measures can be counterproductive and split between pandemic.

A Gallup survey made at the end of July, when the number of cases began to rise, indicating 59% of respondents said that this is a good recommendation to healthy people to return to normal life, while 41% thought

I do not believe that future community health regulations can be more effective than those seen in the past.

Governor Kentucky Andy Beshear, a Democratic member, said he was concerned that the new outbreak would become the most deadly stage in the pandemic, but did not intend to suppress again.

We had vaccines, meaning no need to close again, Beshear said.

Many Americans living in cities once defeated Covid-19 said they now realize that it has never disappeared.

Stephen Silva, 65-year-old driver, said since translating outbreaks, he was as careful as possible, by wearing masks, vaccinations and avoiding crowded places.

I don't know when life can return as we have known, Silva said.