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WASHINGTON – The dead are now 200 thousand: one fifth of the total one million in the world. The numbers of the American pandemic remain worrying. Summer did not bring the desired relief. At the end of July the number of victims was 150,000, with an average of about a thousand deaths a day. Basically, the trend held until August 15. Then the curve began a slow decline until mid-September. Now it seems to point up again. the New York Times He cites the forecast of Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School Center for Health Security: by the end of the year it will reach 300,000. Of course, the infections also continue to grow. The total number of cases exceeds 6.8 million, with a weekly average of 36,000 new positives.
“Let’s turn the page”
Donald Trump, however, carefully avoids bulletins and focuses his campaign messages on the imminent end of Covid-19: “We move on. We didn’t do a good job, but great. I give myself a ten on the report card. Maybe we couldn’t get it right. We have been years ahead on the vaccine roadmap. I repeat: we will have it at the end of October ».
Autumn of the unknown
In the meantime, however, an autumn full of unknowns is expected, as scientists warn. Not without some confusion. Yesterday, the CDC, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, withdrew a statement announcing new results on “airborne transmission of the virus, with particles that remain suspended for a long time, especially in enclosed spaces.” The stricter guidelines were also removed to avoid overcrowding in tight spaces, such as offices, restaurants, gymnasiums.
Elemental and higher
In reality, we cannot even talk about the second wave, because the coronavirus rebounds from one territory to another. Now, the swarm of infections seems less intense on the East Coast and in Florida. Instead, it’s moving into the central regions of the country, hitting states that have only declined so far, such as North and South Dakota, Wisconsin, Oklahoma. In general, even in the United States, the most urgent and complicated problem is the reopening of schools. An exemplary case is that of New York. The city has passed the most critical moment, but Mayor Bill de Blasio has for now only authorized the resumption of activity in kindergartens. On Monday, September 20, some 90,000 children returned to school, which closed in mid-March. Instead, the students restarted their online lessons. Elementary school students will be able to return to classrooms on September 29; middle and high school kids only on October 1.
September 21, 2020 (change September 21, 2020 | 22:44)
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