The rapid increase in the rate of contamination with the new coronavirus in the south of the United States is a “serious problem”, warned on Friday Anthony Fauci, director of the American Institute of infectious diseases.
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“We have a serious problem in certain areas,” said Dr. Fauci, the most listened to by the American government expert on the pandemic, during a press conference of the White House coronavirus crisis cell.
Anthony Fauci. – Isopix
He called on young people in particular for individual responsibility, stressing that they live in an “interconnected” society: “If you are infected, you will infect someone else, who will infect someone else”.
“And in the end, you will infect someone vulnerable, it could be a grandmother, a grandfather, an uncle in chemotherapy or radiotherapy, or a child with leukemia,” he said.
At the same press conference shortly before, Vice President Mike Pence tried to reassure the Americans about the current situation, saying it had nothing to do with the start of the pandemic in northeastern Canada. countries in March and April.
Under 35
“About half of the new cases are Americans under the age of 35, which is encouraging news,” said Mike Pence.
“We are in a much better position. The truth is that we slowed down the transmissions, we flattened the curve, ”said the vice president.
He called on young Americans to follow the instructions for physical distance and hygiene, but he did not quote the wearing of the mask.
This Thursday, nearly 40,000 new cases were identified in the USA, the highest total ever reached. To USA. Between 5 and 8% of the American population has been infected, estimates the director of the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), Robert Redfield, for whom the pandemic is far from being checked in the country.
