According to data from the American University Johns Hopkins, today, the United States is in 3rd place among the countries most affected by the novel coronavirus pandemic with more than 50,206 * confirmed cases, after China – 81,591 * – including the number of positive cases for Covid- 19 has stopped growing dramatically and Italy – 69,176 * cases – whose death toll from the pandemic continues to worsen. New York City, which to date has 14,904 * cases and 125 * deaths, has sadly become the American epicenter of the pandemic.
One third of confirmed cases are in New York
A third of the confirmed cases of the coronavirus, in the United States, is in the city of New York, which, since Sunday evening, like the rest of the state, finds itself on “pause”, as the nuance the governor Andrew Cuomo . It has become the American epicenter of the pandemic.
Usually a symbol of hyper-activity and noise, the city that never sleeps and its 8.5 million inhabitants have come to a standstill. Everything is closed, with the exception of supermarkets, pharmacies, medical offices, alcohol merchants, internet providers, public transport – whose buses have been free since Monday – and laundromats … Yorkers are invited to stay at home as much as possible, even if the offenders are not exposed for the moment to any sanction. New York life changes between telecommuting, zoom videoconferencing and home schooling. A break which nobody knows for the moment the end clap. And this is undoubtedly the most terrible. Not being able to project yourself, not knowing how long the nightmare will last …
« These containment measures taken by New York and California must be everywhere in the United States Insisted the mayor, Bill de Blasio, while fifteen states have followed California and New York in their logic of confinement. And to add ” we need to take these extreme measures “. The councilor continues to call on the Federal State to become more involved alongside the city, which has been hard hit, and whose number of new cases is increasing dramatically every day. National containment, this is what De Blasio asks, in addition to more help in masks, respirators and other technical means that the big apple will badly need in the coming weeks, until ” the curve flattens “And that the results of the” pause Can show some positive effects. A new lease of life for New Yorkers. Both literally and figuratively.
« If they don’t start arriving this week, we’ll get to the point where people can’t be saved when they could have been saved. », He alerted. New York, which already has 7,000 respirators, is calling for 30,000 more to cope with the peak arriving earlier than expected, as the governor said this morning. It is provided ” within 14 days “. Which could suggest that after this peak, the curve could flatten out …
New York is also awaiting help from the National Guard and the US Army Corps of Engineers to install additional hospital beds. The “hospital ship” is expected to dock in New York harbor shortly. The governor, at the head of a state of 19 million inhabitants, specified that ” New York has ten times more cases than other states “. And so, just as much more needs …
While most people who test positive for Covid-19 only have mild symptoms, the most severe cases end up in intensive care units and need to be hooked up to ventilators that need to take over to help patients get through. survive, and then to recover. This issue of respirators has therefore become one of the keys in the fight against Covid-19 and private initiatives are multiplying to try to make them more available. The other key, treatment. New York is starting today a test phase of the chloroquine protocol, which is causing great debate in France. Chloroquine, a hope for some, a window for Donald Trump.
An incomprehensible speech from the president
After long downplaying the scale of the epidemic and its potential impact on the United States, the Republican billionaire has changed his tone since the start of last week. And becoming the third most affected country in the world, it had little choice. Donald Trump’s priority seems to be more to save the American economy, whose good health was his trump card upon his re-election next November. Also, he is pressing things. Last week, he pressed the Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA) by announcing that the famous treatment with chloroquine was approved in the United States. It took Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to calm his enthusiasm and recall that scientifically nothing was, for the time being, approved by the FDA. And he keeps repeating it. While the State of New York is launching treatment tests today, Donald Trump could only welcome this approach, which for her remains the “antidote” against covid-19.
But after another day of stock market collapse, the President of the United States, for whom the stock market seems to be an indicator of the good health of his country, did not stop, Monday, March 23, during his press conference now daily on the number of deaths attributable to the coronavirus recorded during the day and which for the first time exceeded the hundred in his country. ” I want America to understand: this week is going to be bad ».
First smirk at the start of the pandemic, then sympathetic when the number of confirmed cases began to climb in the United States, the tenant of the White House is now pressing. In a hurry to find a cure for the Covid-19, in a hurry to restart the economy of his country and undoubtedly, in a hurry to be able to get back into the countryside.
« Our country was not built to be brought to a standstill Donald Trump said Monday. ” America will again and soon be open for business. Very soon. Much earlier than the three or four months someone suggested. Much sooner. We can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself », He launched. Today, the president wants the country to get back on track with Easter as a deadline, a deadline which, according to some of his experts, seems possible to have contained the spread of the new coronavirus.
Governor Cuomo yesterday advanced a term of ” several weeks, several months, 4 months, 6 months, 9 months »…
*Editor’s Note: The figures given are those put forward by Johns Hopkins University at the time of publishing this article. Unfortunately, these numbers are changing hour by hour.
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