New York Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio blasted Republican President Donald Trump’s management of the coronavirus pandemic on Sunday, expressing his alarm at the risk of seeing “people who could have lived” die.
“The truth that New Yorkers and all Americans deserve to hear is that it is only going to get worse. In reality April and May are going to be much worse,” said the Democratic Mayor of New York , Bill de Blasio, Sunday on NBC. He thus expressed his fears about the management of the coronavirus epidemic by the President.
The American economic capital currently has the largest number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country and its hospitals are quickly at risk of being overwhelmed by the epidemic. “We are frankly ten days away from a general shortage of ventilators, surgical masks, the things necessary for a hospital to continue operating,” the mayor warned on CNN.
1,000 billion dollar economic aid plan
He regretted that the President “does not move a finger to help his hometown”. “I can not be clearer. If the president does not act, people who could have lived will die,” he insisted.
Bill de Blasio called for Congress to act as if the United States was on the way to the next Great Depression. An economic aid plan of more than $ 1,000 billion is currently being negotiated between Republican and Democratic leaders in Congress and the Trump administration.
According to Johns-Hopkins University on Sunday, more than 27,000 cases of coronavirus and 347 deaths have been recorded in the United States.
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