2020: Coronervirus blast, millions infected and dead, and the invention of vaccine

Medical institutions should increase their emergency plans, the announcement said. A year later, more than 1.6 million people died from COVID-19.

The United States has nearly one fifth, with about 4% of the world's population. Before the pandemic, experts ascertained the United States as the country best prepared to face an explosion. “

A series of failures ranks the United States among countries with the largest number of new cases of infection and death per capita. Some of the main moments where things went wrong during the year.

February 5th CDC sends wrong tests

The first tool doctors need to control every outbreak of disease is the supply of accurate tests to determine who has been infected. In this regard, the United States failed early and often.

Instead of relying on already tested tests, such as tests by the (World Health Organization) that were being made available in the United States,” said Gostin.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “decided to produce their tests. Which resulted in a wrong test. ”

A problem with one of the components caused tests to be incorrect. The regulations prevented hospital and university labs from producing their tests until March 3rd, when President Trump's administration lifted restrictions.

Vice President Mike Pence promised that millions of tests were being produced in the second week of March.

But supply shortages, long lines and endless expectations for the results lasted for months and have not yet been finally resolved. This put the virus out of control.

April 3rd Trump doesn't matter to masks

Disregarding the advice of health officials and encouraging people to ignore their advice, President Trump has helped spread the virus, experts say.

“There was an administration that was accustomed to dealing with experts,” said Howard Markel, a medical historian with the University of Michigan. Mr. Trump “not only did he not appreciate them but did not respect them. ”

For example, when the CDC recommended for the first time on April 3rd that people be protected in public in cloth masks, Mr. Trump read the announcement from the White House press office, and then depreciated it.

It's on voluntary basis. I don't think I'm gonna do this,” he added. President Trump's stance ran counter to National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci if the drug against malaria hydroxychloquine could treat COVID-19. Repeatedly, Mr. Trump supported the medicine before final studies were conducted.

Mr. Fauci was skeptical.

Studies would later show that the medicine did not work. At one point, President Trump went so far as to suggest injecting disinfectors or using ultraviolet rays inside the human body. “Politicians don't have recipes for good reasons,” said Mr. Marquel.

April 17 'C' MICHAIGIAN LIRING

In the polarised country during the 2020 election year, even the deadcillrus pandemic became political. When spreading beyond the control of infections forced communities to close, politics confused the difficult balance between health protection and the economy. President Trump and the Republicans mostly opted for the economy.

Mr. Trump supported anti-restriction protests as a result of coronary in some countries. As armed demonstrators stood on the capitol steps in Michigan's Lansing on April 17th, President Trump wrote on Twitter.

“D MICHAIGIN”

“When the president of the United States seeks rebellion against these measures, it's not a small thing,” said Gostin.

This is a devastating blow to the country's leaders' ability and public health agencies to currently combat pandemic. ”

Not only was it inappropriate, but it was potentially very dangerous,” added Mr. Markel.

He stressed that authorities later destroyed a plot to kidnap Michigan's governor. Even masks, one of several effective preventative measures, became part of party policies.

President Trump refused to use the mask before journalists while visiting a car factory in May, because, as he put it,

I didn't want to give the press the satisfaction of seeing it. ”

The United States is the only country in the world where the mask is a political symbol,” said Gostin.

This is because the White House politicised him. There was a matter between the Republican states and the Democrats, when we were actually all trying to protect each other. ”

Festivals in the United States were not the only leaders to blame. Ignoring public health warnings, Americans continued to spread COVID-19 infections.

It looks like the place we're incapable of making small things that would keep us safe, like masks or physical distance,” said Gostin.

Festivals are dangerous times when people cannot resist meeting without adequate precautions. For example, infections were falling during the end of May and then came the festival that remembers the fallen ones in war.

Images from beaches and crowded swimming pools without taking over networks. The infections began to rise again and continued until mid-July.

We saw a huge increase of infection after the festival that remembers the fallen, after the employees' party and now after Thanksgiving,” said Gostin. “and we will see again after Christmas.” Daily cases of new infections have surpassed previous records. Daily death has reached its peak in April.

December 14th.

Despite many failures, experts assess the administration of President Trump for the flow of billions of dollars for the development of the vaccine. The administration called the programme for development of vaccine “Operation Speed Attention” (Operation Warp Speed), of which critics said he did not inspire confidence in the safety of emerging products.

But experts now say everything was done regositably through a record process that took less than a year to offer a vaccine, which regulatory agencies say is safe and efficient.

As the year of pandemic ends, vaccines that can end pandemic have begun to spread everywhere.