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February 1 | Photo: Rick Bowmer / AP / TT
Healthcare professionals are preparing to help with covid testing in Salt Lake City, USA.
Record number of new cases and an increasing number of hospital admissions. The situation looks bleak as the United States approaches 10 million cases of Covid-19 and the spread of the infection shows no signs of slowing down.
Lab workers sweat to deliver test results. Hospitals are struggling to make room for new patients. And bereaved relatives are forced to plan funerals for a loved one. Here’s what a recession looks like on a typical day in the United States, where there have been record numbers of more than 100,000 new virus cases five days in a row.
At any given time, Johns Hopkins University accountants tilt at 10 million COVID-19 cases in the country.
“The beginning of the worst”
America’s top infection control expert Anthony Fauci recently said the United States must immediately change its strategy so that the virus situation does not get worse. But according to him, President Donald Trump no longer wants his advice and in the electoral race, the Republican indicated that he would try to get Fauci fired.
For future Democratic President Joe Biden, the pandemic will be at the top of the agenda, but a lot will happen before he is sworn in on January 20.
“By then, the virus will have devastated communities across the United States,” Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and associate professor at Brown University, told CNN.
– We are at the beginning of the worst of this pandemic.
Experts expect a new explosion in the number of cases in the coming weeks. Ranney is particularly concerned about the social gatherings that are expected in late November and early December, when it’s colder and people gather indoors.
– We will see small epidemics throughout the country. It will be a bit like putting gasoline on a fire, he says.
More hospitalized
When there are more cases, admissions follow. Since mid-September, the number of people treated for COVID-19 in hospitals has nearly doubled nationally and the number of deaths is slowly but surely increasing. In total, around 55,000 people are treated in hospitals for COVID-19, which is approaching a record number of around 59,000 in April and July.
This spring, the coronavirus spread with devastating force in New York City and elsewhere on the east and west coasts. But nine months later, the situation is different.
Covid-19 is now found in much of American society and cases are increasing in 46 out of 50 states, according to The New York Times.
In Pennsylvania, more people test positive than ever during the pandemic. In Wisconsin, the amount of hospital admissions has increased by 500 percent in the past two months. And when Americans fully focused on the presidential election, Texas approved more than a million virus cases on Friday, which is more than any other state in the country.
Appeals for help
It is true that more people are being tested than last spring, but the increase is not only due to that.
Governors and doctors appear regularly on television and ask Americans to help curb the spread of the infection.
“The virus doesn’t care if we vote for Donald Trump or if we vote for Joe Biden,” for example, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement.
– He’s behind us all.
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