05/05/2020 - 16:12
- Clarín.com
- World
The United States reached the figure of 70,000 deaths from coronavirus on Tuesday , according to the real-time count by John Hopkins University. Meanwhile, the positive cases are already more than 1,192,000.
With this figure, it remains the country hardest hit by the pandemic originating from Wuhan (China). It is followed by the United Kingdom (29,500 deceased), Italy (29,300), Spain (25,400) and France (25,200).
Globally, almost 255,000 fatalities are reported, so the United States would already concentrate more than a quarter of Covid-19 deaths worldwide.
New York state alone, the epicenter of the disease, exceeds 25,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, although official data refers to about 20,000 deaths.
Governor Andrew Cuomo himself acknowledged on Tuesday a slight daily rebound in those killed by COVID-19 and warned of the "human cost" that a too fast reopening of the economy can have, an issue that "dramatically" raised the projections of deaths in all the national territory.
In this regard, he stressed that the federal government increased its estimate of new cases of daily infections from 25,000 to 200,000 for June.
He also referred to the IHME (Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) model, supported by the Gates Foundation and used by the White House, which in early April projected there would be some 60,000 fatalities as of early August and in a review. carried out yesterday places the figure at 134,000 deaths due to the social "mobility" expected in the 31 states that will gradually reopen this month.
Cuomo assured that the "underlying issue that is being debated" when speaking of an economic reopening throughout the country is that of "how much is a human life worth."
"There is a cost to keep us closed, an economic and personal cost, but there is also a cost to reopen quickly. The faster we open, the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost, because more lives will be lost. That is the decision we are really making, what is the balance and what is the exchange, "he explained.
In recent days, US President Donald Trump reiterated that the country is going to "lose about 70,000, 80,000 or 100,000 people" to the virus. However, he sent an optimistic message to the Americans: by the end of the year there will be a vaccine and 2021 will be " incredible " economically.
