“This will be our Pearl Harbor, our 9/11”Vice Admiral Jerome Adams said. “And it will not be something that happens in a specific place, it will happen throughout the country and I want Americans to understand how difficult it will be this week,” he stressed, comparing what was coming with two of the most traumatic events in the State psyche. United.
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Within 24 hours of Adams’ grim words, locked up in their homes, people heard that, with 10,000 confirmed covid-19 deaths, the United States had become the third country with the highest number of deaths in all the world. In the afternoon of that same day, the United States broke another milestone by adding 350,000 confirmed cases of the disease caused by the coronavirus.
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We reviewed the evolution of deaths and confirmed cases of covid-19 in the past week. Between Sunday, April 5 and Friday, April 10, the figures show a sustained almost daily increase in both confirmed cases and deaths. This Saturday and Sunday (April 11 and 12), the numbers declined both days, suggesting that the United States has already had its blackest week so far in the pandemic as health experts anticipated.
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“You have to be smart, but the worst is over”
However, some of those experts and politicians have emphasized that it remains to be seen if there is light at the end of the tunnel and that caution must be exercised when starting to relax key physical distancing restrictions for ‘flatten the curve’ of infections with the virus.
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“It won’t be like turning on the light”Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday. “It will depend on where you are in the country, the nature of the outbreak that we have already experienced and the threat of an outbreak that you may not have experienced yet,” he told CNN referring to the possibility of a second wave. of infections.
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For some governors, like Phil Murphy of New Jersey, ‘reopening’ the country to revive the economy may be like “add more gasoline to the fire”. “Right now, the house is on fire and the primary job is to put it out,” the head of one of the second-largest state hit by the pandemic behind New York alone, with over 60,000 confirmed cases and more than 2,300 deaths, told CNN.
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His colleague from New York, Andrew Cuomo, agreed on Monday saying that “you have to be smart in the next steps”Because the virus is like a “water valve” and that if activity is resumed very quickly, it can cause death rates to start to rise again. Although he was optimistic when assuring that, according to him, “The worst is over”.
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Below we recap how each day of last week went by and explain what should happen according to experts from American Enterprise Institute so that state governors can begin to relax restrictions.
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President Donald Trump is eager to get the economy moving after he a record of over 16 million people lost their jobs in just three weeks, and he’s told state chiefs “without excuses” to tune up their systems for screening. However, it is the governors who, according to the Constitution, have the last word on what should be done in their states in these cases. In this note we explain it.
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