:quality(85)//arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-infobae.s3.amazonaws.com/public/4XZH3XQWUBCN3KI5LJT6XTQPCA.jpg "Concern in New York: 900 cops have coronavirus and nearly 5,000 are on sick leave")
New York, the state most affected by the coronavirus in the United States, in addition to being concerned about stopping the advance of the pandemic, tries to cope with the large loss of police infected by the outbreak. About 900 officers from the New York Police Department (NYPD) have tested positive for COVID-19 and nearly 5,000 are on sick leave., according to what was announced this Sunday by the body, which has already lost three of its members to the virus.
Authorities expect the number of confirmed cases to continue to rise in the coming days, the NYPD chief said. Dermot Shea, who accompanied the mayor Bill de Blasio at a press conference.
Shea explained that the number of sick officers began to rise around March 12 and that while some of the first officers to test positive for COVID-19 are now returning to work, the numbers are expected to continue to worsen.
“We are approaching 5,000 members currently out with illness and, by tomorrow, I anticipate that we will have almost 900 positives for COVID-19,” said the head of the largest US police force. the NYPD has about 36,000 officers and about 19,000 civilian employees, according to figures from the institution itself.
Three members, a detective and two civilians, have so far died as a result of the disease, which has the largest focus in the United States in the Big Apple.
The country registers the highest number of cases in the world, with more than 135,000 and at least 2,381 deaths.
Deaths from the pandemic could reach 100,000 and the infections could be millions, warned this Sunday the main epidemiologist of the Government, Anthony Fauci.
“Looking at what we have now, I would say between 100,000 and 200,000 cases, but I don’t want to stick to that estimate. Sorry, I was referring to deaths, “said Anthony Fauci in dialogue with the State of Union program of the North American network CNN.
The renowned epidemiologist explained that “there is something called models. When someone creates a model, they make several assumptions, and the model is only as good and accurate as the assumptions are. When the model arrives, they give the worst possible scenario and the best scenario. Generally, reality is in the middle ”.
In fact, avoiding the alarmist tone, he clarified: “I have never seen a model of the diseases with which I have worked that is fulfilled in the worst scenario. It is always overrated. So when you use figures like a million, a million and a half, two million, that’s almost certainly out of the box. It is not impossible, but very unlikely ”.
Fauci, however, announced that the US is going to have millions of cases. “But I don’t think we need to make a projection when the object of study moves so much and we can make mistakes very easily and mislead people,” he insisted.
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Hours later, during a press conference at the White House, Donald Trump revealed that “it is estimated that the peak of the mortality rate will probably be reached in two weeks.” “The peak, the highest point of the mortality rate, remember this, it is likely to come in two weeks … Therefore, we will extend our guidelines until April 30, to stop the spread,” reported the US president. .
In his statement, he asked citizens to follow the social distancing protocol recommended by the special group for the coronavirus led by Vice President Mike Pence. “The better we do it, the sooner this nightmare ends”, he claimed.
The president, however, was hopeful that after the peak, the fatalities will begin to drop and the recovery will begin. “I want the country and the world to work again,” he said. “It should start to go down – and hopefully very substantially – from that point,” he said.
With information from EFE
Trump revealed that they expect the peak of deaths from coronavirus in the US to occur in two weeks
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