“The battle continues but the data suggests that across the country, we have passed the peak of new cases,” the US president said during his daily press conference. “It is obvious that our aggressive strategy is working,” he added. “These encouraging advances have placed us in a very solid position to finalize guidelines for states to reopen the country,” said Donald Trump, adding that he would present the guidelines on Thursday. He added that some states could reopen before May 1, depending on their epidemic trajectory.
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The death toll, meanwhile, broke a new dark record, with nearly 2,600 additional deaths due to the Covid-19 in 24 hours, or the heaviest daily balance recorded by a country according to the count of Johns Hopkins University. VSit brings the American death toll to 28,326 dead in total. The United States has had the largest number of officially reported cases since the end of March, with more than 637,000 infections diagnosed. About 3.2 million tests have been performed in the country.
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It’s up to states
A lively debate has taken place in recent days as to whether the American president could force states to end deconfinement. The tenant of the White House can certainly set the tone, set a course, but the federal system grants the governors of the 50 states the power to take compulsory measures of containment or deconfinement. Several governors have already said that they intend to keep their independence of decision, which the constitution provides for.
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“When someone is president of the United States, authority is total … Governors know this,” said Trump. Position “absurd”, retorted Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, most affected by the epidemic. “It is not what the law says. It is not what the constitution says. We don’t have a king, we have a president“, he added. And he warned: “If he (Trump) ordered me to reopen in a way that would endanger public health in my state, I would not do it”. “It will be a reopening in stages. There is no switch. It’s not binary“, he said.
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For several days, on the two coasts of the United States, the governors have come together to sketch coordinated responses. To the east: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware and Pennsylvania. To the west: California, Oregon and Washington.
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