The United States sinks into the Covid-19 crisis

Washington correspondent

The United States is facing the progression of the Covid-19 epidemic with all the more difficulty as the health issue has become a political affair. As the numbers point to a rapid increase in the number of cases across the country, and, in some places, hospitalization rates approaching maximum hospital capacities, the United States is struggling to adopt the necessary measures to stem the pandemic. .

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For President Donald Trump, candidate for his own re-election, frustrated at seeing the economy delay in returning to its level at the beginning of the year and not being able to hold electoral rallies, the subject of Covid-19 is seen more and more more like a personal attack. Trump, who has decided to resume his regular press conferences on the epidemic, treats the numbers in the same way he views the current bad polls, which put him behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden: false information

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