Covid grows in skeptics in the United States: “Before they die, they ask: ‘What disease do I really have?'”

In the United States, infections are on the rise, especially in areas previously considered less vulnerable. Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, North Dakota: In the inner states, where anti-contagion measures were less rigid, governments turn away from the rising numbers. In hospitals, increasingly busy with covid cases, not everyone receives the alarm, incredulous that the virus may have reduced them in these conditions. The Corriere della Sera tells it.

“The most tragic thing is watching them die in disbelief,” said Jodi Doering, a nurse at a South Dakota hospital. “They keep saying that the coronavirus doesn’t exist even when it’s killing them. His last words are sometimes: tell me the truth, what illness do I have? ”. A testimony, his, that joins that of many other health workers, who meet the skepticism of those who try and try to save.

Health workers are in danger. Many, Corriere writes, retire early or even change jobs, while hospitals are saturated and there is talk of rejecting the most serious patients, due to lack of beds.

In states like the two Dakotas, one out of every two patients tested is positive, while in other regions we are still above 25%. It was necessary to intervene first, but only now are Republican governors who previously rejected measures such as the masks obligation are running for cover: it happens in Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia. The “tough” Doug Burgum also changes course in North Dakota: “Things have changed, we must change too.” Afterthought: America, which has so far considered it a manly gesture to reject the mask, is sinking, from El Paso in Texas to the plains of North and South Dakota, through Wyoming and Iowa, in an emergency that is rapidly escalating. turns into drama because of these regions. they have few hospitals and, furthermore, they are not equipped to deal with epidemics.