The governor of the state of New York, the democrat Andrew Cuomo, reported that experts ratified the pass to phase two of the Big Apple, scheduled for next Monday, while alarms soared again in Florida, after registering a new record case diary.
“In the last three months we have done what was impossible. We have gone from having the worst data in the country to overcoming the crisis better than any other state or country in the world, “Cuomo said during his daily press conference on the pandemic, in which he confirmed the new stage in New York.
With an average of 25 deaths per day, the president announced that the weekly average had been the lowest in the state since the beginning of the outbreak, although he warned that the virus continues to circulate and, therefore, they would continue to monitor the cases at the same time who asked citizens for responsibility so that there are no outbreaks.
Contrary to the early reopening advocated by President Donald Trump, the Democratic leader said that in New York the economy had reopened while lives had been saved because they never faced the pandemic as a dichotomy between economic recovery and public health.
There are a lot of people dying and it doesn’t have to be this way. It is about doing both at the same time, reopening and saving lives”
Andrew Cuomo
Given the recent outbreaks in a score of states, Cuomo appealed to his counterparts to look at the example of New York and reopen its economy “in a smart way,” the EFE news agency reported.
“There are many people dying and it does not have to be this way. It is about doing both at the same time, reopening and saving lives,” he insisted.
This position was rejected by the governor of Florida, Republican Ron DeSantis, who insists on the de-escalation, despite the continuous rise in cases and hospitalizations in the southern state.
DeSantis attributes the upward trend in infections to increased testing for Covid-19 across the state and is not backing down on his plans to get Florida “back on its feet.”
However, the state today registered a new record of daily cases, with 3,822 new infected in the last day, which brings the total to 89,748, while deaths amount to 3,041.
“The numbers are going in the wrong direction. People are catching it, it is very real and has nothing to do with increased testing,” said Aileen Marty, an infectious disease specialist at Florida International University, one of the voices that from science is sounding the alarms.
According to the Florida Community Covid-19 portal, an alternative to that of the Department of Health, whose data also comes from official entities, only 1,395 of the 6,000 beds in intensive care units in the state were available today.
In a statement to channel 10 of the local TV, Marty said that until “a couple of weeks ago” Florida had not only managed to flatten the curve but was already in the lower part, but now it began to rise instead of down.
The causes, according to the specialist, are a “lot of events” and that “many people forgot how serious and dangerous this virus is or are tired of all this, and stopped doing the things we have to do to avoid uploading again”.
The new daily record of infections represented a 19% increase compared to Thursday and heightens the concern caused by a projection of the model prepared by scientists from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania that indicates that Florida may be “the next great epicenter of transmission of coronavirus “.
Jay Wolfson, from the chair of public health at the University of South Florida (USF), said in statements to the Tampa media that this state could reach “between 6,000 and 18,000 new cases a day by the second week of July” .
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