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The White House coronavirus task force issued extremely urgent warnings to US states in reports this week.
The team of experts urged public health officials to move on state and local policies amid record numbers of cases, hospitalizations and deaths.
As well as fears of a huge surge after Thanksgiving.
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"The risk of covid-19 for all Americans is at a historic level," say reports dated November 29.
The documents, shared with states and obtained by CNN, provide figures from earlier in the pandemic to compare levels.
“The daily national incidence of covid-19 after Memorial Day, but before the summer surge, was less than 25,000 new cases per day.
And now it is more than 180,000 new cases per day.
The patients hospitalized for covid-19 then were less than 30,000 but now they are more than 90,000.
Deaths have more than doubled, ”the report noted.
And he concludes: “We are at a very dangerous point due to the current extremely high standard of covid-19 and limited hospital capacity.
An additional increase after Thanksgiving will compromise the care of covid-19 patients, as well as health care in general.
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The White House task force has frequently asked state officials in weekly reports to enact stricter mitigation measures.
Including, orders for the mandatory use of masks and restrictions on eating indoors.
Now, in a drastic escalation, he urged public health officials to take matters into their own hands.
"If state and local policies do not reflect the severity of the current situation, all public health officials should directly alert the state population," the reports say.
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The reports offered advice to public health officials.
“It should be clear that if you are over 65 or have significant health conditions, you should not enter any indoor public space where there is someone without a mask due to the immediate risk to your health.
Food and medicine should be delivered to your home.
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In addition, the reports echoed the comments of the coordinator of the task force, Dr. Deborah Birx.
Precisely, the function urged Americans who traveled to behave as if they had the virus.
“If you are under 40, you must assume that you caught it during Thanksgiving if you met outside of your immediate home.
You most likely have no symptoms.
However, you are dangerous to others and should isolate yourself from anyone at increased risk for serious illness and get tested immediately.
If you are over the age of 65 or have significant medical conditions and gathered outside of your immediate home, you are at significant risk of contracting a serious COVID-19 infection.
If you have any symptoms, you should get tested immediately.
Precisely, most therapies work best early in the infection, "the reports indicated.
The task force points to a "clear improvement" in European countries after those nations enacted "strong public and private mitigation but preserved schooling."
But, the task force said, “in many areas of the US, state mitigation efforts remain inadequate.
Resulting in sustained transmission or a very long time to peak, more than 7 weeks.
The experts called on all states and counties to "flatten the curve now in order to sustain the health system for emergencies covid-19 and not covid-19."
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