Coronavirus: in the United States, all the curves are dramatically panicking

They sink. On all fronts, the United States is now facing the brunt of the coronavirus crisis. So much so that Donald Trump warned the country that he was entering a "period that is going to be really horrible".

Sunday, the confirmed cases of contamination reached 326,874, while 8,910 deaths were to be deplored, according to the count of Johns-Hopkins University. "It will probably be the hardest week," said the president during a briefing in the White House. "There are going to be a lot of deaths," he added.

The State of Michigan thus had 14,225 affected patients, California 13,917, Louisiana 12,496 and Florida, which recently decreed containment, 11,545. New York State, epicenter of the new coronavirus with United States adds 114,690 people who have been or are affected by CoVid-19.

This State concentrated this Sunday evening 4159 dead, including 2624 in the city of New York alone. In the past 24 hours, nearly 600 people have lost their lives there due to the coronavirus, the worst toll since the start of the epidemic.

The Democratic Governor launched an appeal for the mobilization of all health professionals. "We have not yet reached the peak" of the epidemic "but we are approaching it," said Andrew Cuomo at a press conference. He spoke of estimates ranging from four to fourteen days before hoping for a slowdown in contamination. He added that the New York hospital system was not yet "ready" for the peak. Among the most glaring needs: the respirators essential to the survival of the most affected patients.

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The governor announced that 1,000 respirators offered by China, including Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba, were to arrive Saturday at JFK airport, that the state of Oregon should deliver 140, and that thanks to the NBA. , a million surgical masks "we desperately need" were soon to arrive.

We finally got some good news today.

The Chinese government helped facilitate a donation of 1,000 fans that will happen in JFK today.

I thank the Chinese government, Jack Ma, Joe Tsai, the Jack Ma Foundation, the Tsai Foundation and Consul General Huang.

In addition, the field hospital opened in a conference center of Manhattan will be finally well devoted to the patients of Covid-19, and will be able to accommodate 2500 of them. The federal State will provide its personnel.

Donald Trump also announced that a thousand military doctors and nurses will be deployed to New York to help fight the virus, without specifying where they will be affected. "They are going to war, they are leaving for a battle for which they were never really prepared," said the president. "We need 45,000 health professionals to join the fight in April and May to be able to get by," added Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Like all wars, this one will have dramatic economic and social consequences. In a liberal country where the welfare state hardly exists, the pandemic instantly threw millions into poverty. It will also further deepen social inequalities by hitting low-income households and the indebted middle classes first.

"This is an extraordinary blow to the millions of Americans who had barely recovered from the 2008 financial crisis," said Edward Alden, an expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. Wages had taken eight years to recover from the previous recession. "And for the lowest paid workers, incomes have only increased sharply in the past two years," he said.

The month of March, with 701,000 jobs destroyed, brutally ended more than eight years of continuous creation. The unemployment rate, which fell in February to 3.5%, the lowest level in 50 years, rose sharply to 4.4% on Friday. And the addition should further increase since this assessment does not include the last two weeks, which saw nearly 10 million new applicants register for unemployment benefits.

The crazy unemployment curve in the United States… 10 million more unemployed, WALL STREET going down… Donald Trump flinches #Usa #Coronavirus pic.twitter.com/xjLVppk24t

The bailout of the American economy, ratified on March 27 for a total amount of $ 2,000 billion, provides, it is true, better compensation for the unemployed and lengthens the usual five to six months of entitlement by 13 weeks. And the figures could also have swelled because, thanks to the plan, the self-employed and certain professions, such as VTC drivers for example, have been temporarily included among the beneficiaries. Economists nevertheless fear that 20 million jobs will be destroyed in a dizzyingly short time.

According to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, it is small businesses that have massively created jobs in recent years. However, since the decisions taken to stop the pandemic, they have suffered terribly. Friday, the first day of availability of the 350 billion funds provided by the recovery plan, VSEs and SMEs asked for more than $ 5.4 billion in loans which should enable them to pay the salaries of their employees in particular.

Jovita Carranza, who is following the case within the Trump administration, reported on Twitter 17,503 loans requested by businesses on Friday from more than 1,100 local banks.

Latest #PaycheckProtectionProgram numbers: 17,503 loans valued at more than $ 5,400,000,000. @SBAgov + over 1,100 local lenders helping small businesses stay afloat with working capital to keep employees paid + doors open.