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The United States prepares for its “Pearl Harbor moment” | Society


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Americans are preparing for what the federal government’s public health spokesperson has described this Sunday as “the hardest and saddest week of their lives.” “This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment or our 9/11 moment, frankly,” said Jerome Adams, the surgeon general of the United States. “It just isn’t going to be that localized. It is going to happen all over the country ”.

Adams has warned on television that the United States, which counted on Sunday afternoon almost 329,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and more than 9,300 deaths, it has not yet reached the peak of the coronavirus epidemic, but some parts of the country are approaching.

Donald Trump celebrated the figures for New York, which has seen a slight decline from fatalities the day before. With more than 122,000 cases, almost as many as the whole of Spain, New York is the most affected state, and almost quadruples the second, New Jersey. The two neighboring states, Trump has said, “have become a very hot area.”

The president, however, has been more optimistic than his medical experts at his daily coronavirus news conference. “We are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel,” Trump has said. Hours earlier, Dr. Anthony Fauci, its chief infectious disease expert, expressed greater caution: “I will not say we have it under control. We are having a hard time controlling it. ”

The President has assured that 1.6 million diagnostic tests have already been carried out in the country (of some 330 million inhabitants). To the state and local authorities who have been claiming for weeks respirators, necessary to treat the most seriously ill, and protective material for front-line health professionals, the president has told him that his Administration is collecting material “from every corner of the Earth ”To distribute it throughout the country.

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