The US Is Now Running Neck and Neck With Italy On Number of Infected
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The US is running neck and neck with Italy this morning as the number of people infected with COVID19 reached 500,000. Italy claimed 18,849 while the United States had 18,777, both numbers will no doubt have increased by the time I finish writing this sentence.
On Friday the US reached another bleak milestone: more than 2,000 fatalities in one day, the first nation in the world to reach that number, the BBC reports. Dr. Chris Murray, head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, who created one of the models being used by the White House to keep track of the virus tells CNN:
“We rerun the model, basically, almost every night—and the new returns from different states are suggesting different peaks in different states, but at the national level we seem to be pretty much close to the peak [daily death toll],”
Based on his team’s model, Murray expects about 61,500 American deaths by August, though he warns that’s only if states keep rigorous social distancing going through the end of May; if some states balk, the numbers “don’t look good.”
So when will things get back to “normal” in the US? According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s go-to infectious disease expert, election month is a target date of sorts. Fauci told MSNBC’s Brian Williams Friday evening:
“I would hope that by November we would have things under such control that we can have a real degree of normality. That’s my interest and my job as a public health person.”
Asked by Williams if citizens across the US would have the right to vote by mail in the election as a result of the ongoing pandemic, the always politically correct Fauci answered that was “not my area of expertise.”
Meanwhile, Former President Barack Obama had a subtle message for the leading spreader of false and misleading COVID19 information.
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