WASHINGTON.- In a single day, 15,299 confirmed coronavirus infections. Florida marked a new milestone for the pandemic in the United States,
where the government of
Donald Trump
it continues to provide signals in favor of the reopening of the country, without a hint, yet, of a clear national strategy to put out the flashes in the south.
Since the arrival of the coronavirus in the country, at the beginning of the year,
no state has had so many new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in one day
. Florida broke the record for
New York in mid-April, when the country was confined to try to contain the virus, although without reaching a quarantine like
Spain or the
Argentina
.
The contagion curve is now steeper, and in the last week confirmed daily cases exceeded 60,000 due to outbreaks in the Sun Belt states: Florida, Texas and Arizona and California, the most populous.
“You looked at DC, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, whichever you want. Florida did better. I’m not criticizing those states, but everyone in the media said Florida was going to be like New York or Italy, and that has not happened, “Governor Ron DeSantis had celebrated last April 28 in the Oval Room of the White House, sitting next to Trump, before the start of the outbreak.
“He is very popular, and for a reason. He has done a fantastic job,” Trump praised him.
Florida was one of the last states to close and one of the first to open.
. DeSantis, who defended her reopening policy, refused to sign an order to compel residents to wear a mask in public, leaving that decision to cities and counties.
The state hospitals began to feel the outbreak. Despite everything, Disney opened its doors this week, a controversial move that met resistance among park employees.
“We have definitely had a sharp increase in the number of people going to the hospital, the number of people in intensive care, and the number of people on respirators,” Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez said in an interview with CNN. “We still have capacity, but I am very concerned,” he added.
Florida Peak – which has already recorded more than 260,000 cases –
offered new evidence that the pandemic, far from waning, strikes like never before
. The
World Health Organization (WHO) reported another record of confirmed coronavirus infections in the world, accounting for 230,370 new cases. In
Spain, Catalonia once again confined 200,000 people for a coronavirus outbreak around Lleida. Experts warn that
there will be a rise in the number of deaths as a logical consequence of the greater number of cases,
Despite the flare-up of the pandemic, Trump and the White House continue to offer a triumphalist message, very far from reality and from the warnings of experts.
A broken relationship
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a star epidemiologist for the federal government, was left in chapel.
The relationship between Trump and Fauci is going through its worst moment: they have not seen each other since the beginning of June, and from the west wing they let the media know that they have lost – for now – access to the Oval Room. In recent days, Fauci raised the profile with several interviews he used to raise the alarm and object to the reopening, and Trump responded with criticism: he said that
Fauci had made “many mistakes” and he did not agree with his vision of the pandemic.
“I think we are in a good place,” Trump said this week, in an interview with Gray Television, contradicting Fauci. “I think we are going to be in very good shape,” the president predicted.
Fauci and Trump’s messages are increasingly antagonistic. Trump vows – wrongly – that the United States has one of the lowest death rates in the world
and Fauci has said that you cannot be complacent about the coronavirus. Trump said his government did a “great job” and Fauci said in an interview with the FiveThirtyEight site: “As a country, when you compare us to other countries, I don’t think you can say that we’re doing great. I mean, it’s not.” . In an interview with
The Financial Times
He also spared no warnings: “We are experiencing a perfect storm,” he said.
Trump said, multiple times, that
The reason the United States registers more and more cases is because it has done more tests.
All the experts, Fauci included, refuted this claim by pointing to states that, like Florida, rushed into the reopening and also did not do enough to induce social distancing or the use of masks.
On Thursday, in an interview with Sean Hannity, the Fox News columnist with whom he is closest, Trump said that
Fauci “is a good man, but he has made many mistakes”
. For the first time since the pandemic began, Trump showed himself over the weekend in a mask and allowed himself to be photographed, after several months of requests from politicians and experts.
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