Democrats are increasingly concerned that the country has lost the fight against the new coronavirus.
For months, beginning in March, public health officials promoted, and local policy makers imposed, strict stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines that seemed to contain the spread of COVID-19.
But in the past two weeks, when states opened doors to their economies and consumers emerged from isolation, the number of cases has skyrocketed in states across the country, leading to a record daily peak of over 57,000. for the first time on Friday.
The trend has prompted warnings from public health experts that, without a restoration of social restrictions, the United States will lose its last chance to “flatten the curve” and prevent the crisis from spiraling out of control.
Democrats argue, however, that without a Trump administration national strategy, it is too late.
“The country is on fire,” said the representative. Anna Eshoo
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Thirty-nine states have seen an increase in cases in the two weeks leading up to the July 4 weekend, with Texas, Arizona, Oregon, Georgia, Florida, California and Ohio all seeing huge leaps. The counts bring the total number of cases in the United States to 2.8 million, including more than 129,000 deaths, according to data tabulated by The New York Times. Both numbers are by far the highest of any country in the world.
Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciTrump beats the ‘radical left’, the media, China in the direction of Independence Day, the White House seeks to make ‘we need to live with it’ the new tone on the coronavirus: report that the Rand exchange Paul with Fauci was exactly what America needed MORE, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, attributes the increase to two underlying factors. First, he noted that many states chose to reopen while new cases were on a plateau, while other countries remained blocked until they showed abrupt reductions in new infections. Second, the United States was much more lenient than other countries in allowing social activities during the early spread of the virus, he said, even in states that took the strictest measures.
“That allowed the perpetuation of the outbreak that we never had under very good control,” Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told the BBC recently.
Admiral Brett Giroir, a senior administration health official, was frank about the consequences.
“We are not flattening the curve right now,” Giroir, deputy secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services, told House lawmakers on Thursday. “The curve keeps going up.”
Democrats say the reason is not a mystery. They are accusing President Trump
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“We need an adult in charge because in states like mine, you don’t have strong and courageous leadership. You need it from the White House. And until we have that, and I don’t think we will, I am really very concerned about everyone in our country, “said the Representative. Veronica Escobar
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“This is terrifying,” he added. “I’m afraid we are out of control.”
As a sign of the severity of the outbreak in Texas, Republican Governor Greg Abbott issued a mask requirement Thursday for anyone in public in the hardest hit counties, a notable step for a state that closed slowly, reopened quickly, and was reluctant to impose harsh restrictions on its independent residents.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal
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“It has been detrimental to our efforts to contain the virus, so the states are alone,” said Jayapal. “The blood is in the hands of this president in terms of lack of leadership on all of these issues.”
Rep. Ami Bera
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“While in April the numbers were still manageable, [it’s] much harder to mitigate things right now, “he said.” I think the public really needs to understand that fall and winter can be much worse than what we’re seeing right now, especially when people come into the house and the Flu is circulating.
“We have a long way to go,” he added.
As he has during the pandemic, Trump last week continued to send inconsistent and mixed messages to the American public about the coronavirus. After months of minimizing the effectiveness of face liners, he told Fox Business that he is “all for masks,” even when he refuses to wear one in public. Trump also said he hoped the virus would “go away” and that the United States find a vaccine “very soon.”
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash
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“I think he’s probably a little scared,” Amash said, wearing a mask, to The Hill. “I don’t think he thinks so much about other people; he’s panicking over his choice. ”
With COVID-19 cases reappearing across the country, lawmakers are taking a good dose of quarterback on Monday morning.
Rep. Rick Larsen
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“We should never have attacked this virus state by state. It should have been done at the federal level. This is a culmination of the non-decisions going back to January, ”said a frustrated Larsen through his mask.
“Be the best you can do no matter what your damn mask is wearing, stay six feet away if you can and cut down on your trip. All responses are irrelevant if you don’t wear your mask and social distance. “
But even lawmakers on Capitol Hill can’t agree on the simple problem of wearing masks. Minutes after Larsen descended the steps of the Capitol, the Conservative representative. Ted Yoho
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As a large animal veterinarian, Yoho argued that while keeping the economy open would have resulted in more positive cases, the virus would have weakened, making it less deadly and giving the population greater “collective immunity.”
“Originally, I didn’t think we should have taken the path” of shutting down the economy, said Yoho, a member of the Freedom Caucus. “But we have, and what I think they should do now is open it, but tell people that they are vulnerable, comorbid, elderly, overweight … you have to take precautions.”
“The sooner we return to a normal lifestyle, the faster we will recover from this.”
Despite the closure of the beaches, Yoho’s home state of Florida recorded more than 11,000 cases of COVID-19 for the first time on Friday, bringing its total number of cases to more than 190,000. Some 3,700 people have died in the Sunshine State, whose Republican Governor, former representative. Ron DeSantis
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However, Democrats caution that an economic recovery is not possible without first eliminating the threat to public health by slowing the spread of the virus. Unless that happens, they say, state reopens are bound to backfire by forcing another round of closings.
Some lawmakers said the country has already reached that point.
“We have to stay home again, the quarantine, the masks and the businesses will have to close again,” said Jayapal. “Because we cannot afford this type of virus spread.”
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