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While New York City is collapsed, with no people on the streets and, at 7 pm today - Spanish peninsular time - 98 killed by the coronavirus, people were going to the beach in California, despite the fact that The state is the third most positive and that the governor has given orders that citizens stay home and limit their contacts as much as possible.

That is the situation in the United States. Each state acts on its own as the coronavirus spreads across the country . Three weeks ago, the United States had 500 cases of coronavirus. Today at 7 in the afternoon, he had 41,167, with 499 dead . At this rate, the United States will become the country with the most positives at the end of this week. Next week the death toll could increase by 1,000 a day.

A Johns Hopkins University study conducted last year revealed that a severe flu epidemic could lead to 200,000 people being hospitalized in Intensive Care Units (ICU) in the United States. The problem is that the country only has 100,000 beds in its ICUs. Even if other areas of hospital centers are transformed into units for critically ill patients, the system does not have much leeway.

According to the World Bank, the US has 2.5 hospital beds for every 1,000 inhabitants . Spain, for example, has 3; Italy, 3.4; France, 6.5; Germany, 8.3. There is also a shortage of medical equipment. Across the country, the number of respirators is less than 70,000, and in New York City, doctors and nurses are using garbage bags to make makeshift isolation suits .

The fact that each state acts as it wants is one more risk factor. Last week, images of twenty-year-old drunkards like vats on Florida beaches - some even claiming that "I don't care about the coronavirus because young people don't do anything to us" - went around the country. The coronavirus explosion coincided with the Chinese New Year to create a crowded situation that spread the virus. And in the US it has arrived with the 'Spring Break', that is to say, the spring break, a kind of bacchanal in which the university students of that country dedicate themselves to putting up to their ears of alcohol.

One of the favorite places to carry out this activity is Florida. And that state has resisted until the end to close its beaches. Its governor, Republican Ron DeSantis, went so far as to say that he was not going to close the beaches due to the coronavirus, in the same way that he was not going to prohibit people from driving due to traffic accidents .

Until three days ago, the state's beaches and hotels, including President Donald Trump's country club Mar-a-Lago, were open to the public. But, even with the functions, the state has not done much to prevent meetings or parties in private houses or on islets a few hundred meters from the beach. Only the closure of marinas - including private ones - seems to have had consequences.

Of course, the DeSantis case is not unique. The mayor of the town of Lake Worth Beach, with almost 40,000 inhabitants and located on the outskirts of Miami, Pam Triolo, came to suspend a plenary session of the city council last week when a councilor demanded that she prevent access to the beaches and proclaim a moratorium on the payment of public services to protect those who have lost their jobs and cannot pay. Nor is Florida an isolated extreme. In California, for example, there is an isolation order, but the authorities, in many cases, are not forcing citizens to comply with their own protection measures.

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