By E.B.
“When you are living your life and trying to open the country, you are going to be in contact with people. And for that reason, we know that masks are really important and we should use them everywhere,” said Fauci during a virtual event of the American Chamber of Commerce.
In his opinion, the population needs to understand that the context derived from the COVID-19 pandemic puts people in a “very serious situation” that requires communities to work together. “If we could get more people to understand this, hopefully we will get more people to be willing to wear a mask,” he insisted during the event, as reported by CNN television.
He also assured that the United States, the country most affected by the pandemic in the world, needs to focus on more “current” problems, instead of worrying about a hypothetical second wave of COVID-19 infections. “When there are up to 70,000 new infections … that is something to focus on now, instead of looking at what will happen in September or October,” he said.
The controversy surrounding masks continues in the United States as the country has shattered its record for new confirmed infections, a total of 77,255 on Thursday.
In the absence of an order in this regard issued by the Administration of the President, Donald Trump, and the skepticism shown by the President regarding this preventive measure of possible coronavirus infections, the governors of the United States manage this issue. themselves.
Thus, in states such as Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana or Maine it is already mandatory to carry them in public, while others are not inclined to regulate their use. The tension is more palpable in cases like Georgia, whose governor, Brian Kemp, sued Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms for ordering that the use of a mask is mandatory in the city.
CONSTANT INCREASE
At least 39 states in the United States have reported an increase in their number of new COVID-19 cases from the previous week.
California, Florida, Arizona and Texas are among the new epicenters of the pandemic in the North American country and the increasing number of cases causes a shortage of hospital beds in these regions. For their part, Arizona and Texas have begun preparing refrigerated trucks in response to the overflow of the morgues.
Texas has broken its record for new deaths as a result of COVID-19, 174 this Friday, after registering the highest number in this regard a day earlier, 129. In the state, to date, 3,735 fatalities have been confirmed. and 307,572 new infections, 10,256 in the last 24 hours.
The United States records more than 3.6 million people infected with the new coronavirus, including almost 140,000 deaths.
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