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“We are entering the most worrying and deadly phase of this pandemic.” The warning comes from Deborah Birx, the White House covid-19 response coordinator, and is explained in an internal report distributed Monday to senior officials in the Donald Trump administration and accessed by The Washington Post.
Birx warns of a possible increase in mortality from covid-19 and calls, therefore, for “more aggressive action” to address the growing number of infections from the new coronavirus in the country. A position that clashes with what its president has been saying in recent days. Donald Trump has said, during the election campaign, that the United States is managing to end the pandemic, but his coordinator could not disagree more.
An epidemiologist and colonel in the army in the reserve, Deborah Birx says in the document that it is not about applying national confinement, but about the need to have “an aggressive and balanced approach that is not being implemented” in the United States.
Expert estimates that the United States will reach 100,000 cases a day this week
An approach that, he says, should go through “consistent” messages to the population, testing capacity and an increase in health professionals across the country before reaching a peak in COVID-19 infections, he warned.
Regarding the communication of the health crisis to the public, Birx explained when considering that Americans need “consistent messages about wearing uniform masks, physical distance, and hand washing.” In addition, health authorities must transmit information on the need to limit private meetings, especially within family and between friends, he defended.
According to The Post, the White House pandemic response coordinator estimates that this week the United States will reach more than 100,000 cases a day.
“Cases are increasing rapidly by about 30% in all US counties, the highest number of hotspots for the county that we have seen in this pandemic. Half of the United States is in the red zone. or orange, despite the amount of evidence having remained or reduced, “the expert warned in the note.
On Monday, the United States surpassed 9.2 million infected with the covid-19 disease and more than 231,486 deaths since the pandemic began, according to an independent tally from Johns Hopkins University.
