5 hours agoU.S.A. alert to the coronavirus, Trump comes out with a new decision
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(6 years ago)In the United States, the death toll from the coronavirus continues to rise rapidly and has reached about 2,500, with about 140 thousand positive tests. At a press conference Sunday evening, President Donald Trump extended the deadline for implementation of social distance guidelines until 30 April. He said [...]
At a press conference Sunday evening, President Donald Trump extended the deadline for implementation of social distance guidelines until 30 April.
He said the death penalty in the US will likely reach two weeks, but stressed that he hopes the country will get on the road to recovery from coronavirus before June 1st.
The president accused hospitals of amassing respiratories, for which the demand is quite high.
He said any hospital that doesn't use respirators should hand them over. A few days ago President Trump used emergency powers to ask the firm General Motors to produce respiratories for coronavirus patients, since he had earlier accused this company of spending time in negotiations.
Yesterday, he expressed more optimism for the firm General Motors, saying it was working hard. His administration is under pressure to increase the production of respirators, which are of critical importance to saving patients with complications from coronavirus.
The U.S. government's top expert on infectious diseases, Anthony Fauci, predicted on Sunday that 100 to 200 thousand Americans could die from coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said the United States would probably have <x0 million cases with COVID-19. He said his figures are based on scientific models influenced by many factors.
Like Dr. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Thomas Inglesby, director of the Center for Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, rejected President Donald Trump's suggestions on easing measures as home - staying advice and social distance for curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
Dr. Fauci said it would support facilitating anti-coronvirus measures in the country's least hit areas if the availability of tests to monitor those areas increases. But he said the situation is a little unclear currently.
We need to continue with the social distance”, Dr. Inglesby on Fox TV.
The rate of coronavirus in the United States has been alarming, with 1,000 deaths registered over the last month and a thousand more than the last two days.
President Trump suggested last week that parts of the country can be returned to work without a problem, continuing “social cohesion and hand washing”.
Asked if this was feasible, Dr. Inglesby said:
He said that if Americans, the millions of whom are working from home or staying at home without pay, return to work prematurely, the coronavirus will spread <x0WWWWWS and aggressively. We must seriously continue restrictions”.
Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the administration's task force for the fight against coronavirus, told Fox News television that in the coming days he will provide President Trump with data on the progress of the disease.
We will open the country as soon as we can do this responsibly”, he said.
Pence said that “should be encouraging to Americans” since hundreds of thousands of people tested, only 10 percent have resulted positive.
But the Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, warned of difficult days. She said President Trump's decisions have resulted in fatality, including his initial denial of the influence of pandemic and government delays to provide medical equipment to areas where necessary.
“We must prevent further loss of life, not restart the opening. We must continue testing”, she said on CNN.
The republican governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, echoed health experts.
We will follow the advice of doctors and scientists”, he said at Fox News. He said that not only will the country not return to the normality of Easter, but “we think that in two weeks it will be worse, not better”.
Michigan Democrat Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who has often debated with Republican Trump over shortages in medical equipment for health professionals, said CNN has to stop spreading coronavirus “to give hospitals the chance of” treating patients.
President Trump had examined the possibility of quarantine for two weeks of New York states, New Jersey and Connecticut, but withdrew from this movement, calling on the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to issue a “strict travel path to the area that includes these states. VOA
