“The coming months will look better than next week,” U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Mark McClain said at an event hosted by Duke University on Tuesday.
“Things are slowly starting to get better,” he said. “With the help of a vaccine, he said,“ this may not be in the past for months to come. But in early 2021 it will start to get better. “
Experts have warned to pull tight. Arkansas Govt. Asa Hutchinson said that if the state numbers continue tracking at the same pace, “1,000 Arkansas could die in Covid-19 between now and Christmas.” Texas officials have deployed two mobile refrigerator trucks in the city of Amarillo while health officials in another part of the state warn they are preparing for the second part of the epidemic as the holidays approach.
“If we don’t do the right things at halftime to create a strategy and get our act together, we’re ready for the second half. We’ll be snatched by our opponent and that’s Covid-1,” said Dr. Umair Shah, executive director of the Harris County Department of Health, told CNN.
ILLINOIS GOVERNOR: With action, we can save ‘thousands of lives.’
As of early Wednesday morning, 47 states had seen at least a 10% increase in new cases from the previous week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. About Of these, six states saw an increase of more than 0%. In the midst of the crisis, every day more governors and local officials are announcing new measures to tackle the Covid-19 that has spread to their state communities.
“We will continue to see an increase in both hospital admissions and deaths from Covid-19 for weeks due to the infection already occurring,” the governor said. “But we can change our long-term results. If we make changes now to stop its changes, we could potentially save the lives of thousands of people in the next few months.”
On Monday, a stay-at-home advisory began in Chicago, where city officials also urged residents not to keep guests at their homes, to cancel traditional Thanksgiving celebrations and to avoid traveling.
Similar measures have been announced in the US in recent days.
Ohio Gov. Mike DY announced a statewide curfew starting Thursday that will run from 10 p.m. to 5 p.m.
In Maryland, the governor has effectively issued an emergency order since Friday calling for all bars and rest restaurants to be closed from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except for carryout and delivery services.
“We’re at war right now,” said Larry Hogg of the government. “And the virus is winning. Now, I urge the people of our state to stand together for more than ever.”
College students said to stay home after the holidays
U.S. As the case progresses, schools and universities are also exploring what the next steps should be, especially as experts fear that the holiday season could lead to the spread of the country’s virus.
In Boston, Mayor Marty Walsh said the holidays “are a high risk, especially for college college students who do not live at home.”
“Typically, many students travel to their hometown for Thanksgiving, then return to campus for the rest of the semester,” said Wal Lash. “We’ve told college students not to do that this year. If you’re going home for Thanksgiving, you shouldn’t go back to Boston this semester, you should study the rest … from a distance.”
Earlier this week, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont also issued guidance for college college students outside the state who were considering returning home to Connecticut for the holiday.
He said returning students should self-immolate for 14 days before or after coming home, be tested for Covid-19 both before leaving school and after coming home, should not participate in parties or reunions and no elderly or There should be no quarantine with family members at risk.
“We can’t implement this,” Lemont said. “I have to rely on your good judgment … that you follow the protocol, you follow the quarantine and you follow the test.”
Return to normal
Despite the good news on the vaccine front, the director of health, Dr. Francis Collins’ national bodies have warned Americans not to “jump the gun.”
It’s “pretty” that vaccine tests have reached this stage so quickly, he said, that it usually takes about eight years to develop a vaccine.
While the efficacy rate of the vaccine should be encouraging, he said there are still many steps to take before it is approved and available.
“It’s not going to be a chore by data,” he said. “They are going to monitor very carefully to make sure that everything is safe and effective, then they will decide whether these two vaccines, Pfizer and Modern, are in fact entitled to emergency use rights,” Collins said. Said.
Both companies could be acquired by the EU by mid-December, he added.
“If both of these vaccines are approved, for emergency use, about 400 million doses will be prepared in December.”
People will need two doses of both vaccines. “So there are 20 million people who can be vaccinated and we need to make sure it is used for those at the highest risk,” he said.
Collins said more doses will be available each month after that, and there are other vaccine candidates who could get approval.
“The hope is that by April we will actually see a lot of people get vaccinated and by the summer we will really be hoping that most Americans will be immune to this and we will start thinking about getting back to normal life,” Collins said.
CNN’s Gregory Lemos, Karma Hassan, Kelly Christ, Shelby Lynn Erdman, Brad Parks and Gisela Crespo contributed to the report.
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