Experts Beg Americans To Take Coronavirus Seriously Or Face Further Disaster
Donald Trump did not appear overly concerned Wednesday about the resurging coronavirus pandemic. “I think we’re going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that at some point that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope,” he said in an interview with Fox Business.
The White House claims the president is the “most informed person on the planet,” but Trump’s comments conflict with increasingly urgent warnings from health experts — including those in Trump’s administration — that the virus is spreading at alarming rates and that, without immediate intervention, Americans will continue to get sick and die.
“I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 cases a day if this does not turn around,” Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday.
Earlier this week, a high-ranking official at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a stunning warning that, in the emerging second spike of coronavirus infections, it was essentially too late to test and isolate cases. “We have way too much virus across the country for that right now,” said Dr Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, on Monday.
“This is really the beginning,” Schuchat said of the recent US surge. “I think there was a lot of wishful thinking around the country that, hey, it’s summer, everything’s going to be fine, we’re over this. And we are not even beginning to be over this. There are a lot of worrisome factors about the last week or so.”
Numbers across the country are skyrocketing, particularly in states that had begun to reopen businesses and activities.
In the last 24 hours, Arizona saw a spike of 4,878 cases of Covid-19 and 88 deaths — on the same day vice president Mike Pence visited the state. Houston intensive care units are currently shifting resources to address a patient overflow, and Louisiana saw its greatest spike in cases in over three months.
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