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Coronavirus: Trump predicts spike in U.S. deaths in two weeks

2020-03-30T04:00:25.147Z


The President has also extended the social distancing recommendations until April 30.


Donald Trump estimated Sunday that coronavirus mortality in the United States would " probably " peak in two weeks, while extending recommendations for social distancing until April 30.

According to estimates by Dr. Anthony Fauci, adviser to the American president on the pandemic, COVID-19 could make “ between 100,000 and 200,000 ” deaths within the first world power.

During a press conference from the White House gardens, the American president mixed optimistic remarks on a " recovery " in early June and warned against any precipitation. " We will extend our recommendations until April 30 to slow the spread, " he said.

The republican billionaire is thus revising his position expressed at the beginning of last week: he had then said that he wanted to restart the economy of the United States for Easter, that is, on April 12.

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The federal states, especially those most affected by the pandemic, have taken parallel restrictive measures, such as the closure of schools, public places such as restaurants. Some governors have also asked their constituents to stay at home as much as possible.

According to Johns Hopkins University, the count of which references, more than 139,000 Covid-19 positive cases have been officially reported so far in the United States, a record worldwide. The total number of deaths rose Sunday evening to 2,436.

Become in the eyes of millions of Americans a reassuring figure in the course of his almost daily interventions within the " task force " of the White House, Dr. Fauci wanted to expose the projection models.

" They give the worst and the best of scenarios. And generally the reality is somewhere in the middle, ”he explained. I have never seen, among the diseases on which I had to work, a model whose worst case was realized. They are always overestimated . ”

" Where are the masks going? "

Another Donald Trump advisor on coronavirus, Dr. Deborah Birx, warned that the whole country should prepare for the worst. " No state, no metropolis will be spared, " she hammered on the NBC channel.

" Each metropolis should consider the possibility of a crisis equivalent to that of New York, and do everything it can to prevent it now, " she insisted.

New York State, which Donald Trump had planned to quarantine on Saturday before finally giving it up, alone accounts for almost half of the cases officially declared in the United States. Its governor Andrew Cuomo communicated on Sunday a new assessment of nearly 60,000 cases and 965 deaths.

Read also: Donald Trump renounces placing New York State in quarantine after considering it

But other " hot spots " appear across the country, including neighboring New Jersey, Florida, Louisiana or the cities of Detroit and Chicago in the north of the country. A baby under the age of one has died in the state of Illinois, local authorities announced on Saturday.

The leaders of these most affected states worried on Sunday about a lack of equipment in hospitals to cope with the influx of patients, including artificial respirators. " The situation in Detroit is getting worse from minute to minute, " said Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.

The virus is obviously spreading faster than we would like. We are staying on a trajectory that would make us exceed our health care capacity ”, worried the governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards. He acknowledged that the famous Mardi Gras festivities in mid-February had " probably " contributed to the spread of the virus around New Orleans.

During his long press conference, at times very disjointed, Donald Trump also suggested that certain materials, crucial for the treatment of patients with coronavirus, were suspiciously disappearing from American hospitals. " Where are the masks going? Do they leave through a back door? », He asked himself, without providing any quantified or concrete elements which would give credence to the idea of ​​thefts.

Source: lefigaro

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