The US economy could gradually restart in May, White House chief Anthony Fauci said on Sunday, while remaining very cautious as the coronavirus pandemic appears to be nearing its peak in the United States. In late March, President Donald Trump said he would "love" to see part of the United States come out of confinement for the Easter celebrations.
But, on Sunday, the country remained stationary and many churches were deserted due to restrictions put in place to stem the epidemic which left more than 20,000 dead. "We hope that by the end of the month we will be able to see what is going on and if there are elements that allow us to restart safely and safely" in certain regions of the country, said doctor Anthony Fauci on CNN.
Explosion of layoffs
"If there is, we go." Otherwise, we continue to seal, "added the director of the American Institute of Infectious Diseases, which represents the scientific community in the working group set up by Donald Trump to fight against Covid-19. Deciding to return to normalcy in the country after the sudden shutdown of part of the economy, "it's not like relighting a lamp," he said. Donald Trump advocates a restart of activity as quickly as possible, while layoffs exploded with 17 million workers registered in unemployment benefits.
The tenant of the White House must launch in the coming days a working group on the modalities of a recovery of the first world economy, even if the decision to end the containment ultimately returns to the governors of the various states and to the local communities . Anthony Fauci said he was optimistic about the next downturn in the epidemic, especially in New York State, the epicenter of the disease with more than 9,000 deaths, or almost half of the deaths recorded in the country.
"Cautious optimism"
"Admissions, hospitalizations, intensive care and intubation are not only stabilized but are starting to go down," said the scientist, seeing "this decline with cautious optimism". According to Dr. Fauci, the recovery date will be different between major cities like New York and rural areas like Arkansas, a southern state where the population is not confined and which has only 27 fatal cases.
There are encouraging signs, also found on ABC the boss of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the American agency of the drug. "The models show that we are very close to the peak" of the epidemic, said Stephen Hahn. But the date of May 1 is only a "target". "I think it is too early to say that we see the light at the end of the tunnel," he said, using an expression used by Donald Trump.
"Artificial maturity"
Phil Murphy, the governor of New Jersey, another home of the coronavirus, assured CBS that the economic recovery should go hand in hand with "full recovery of the health system". Her Maryland counterpart, Larry Hogan, warned on ABC of an "artificial deadline" while the disease is still wreaking havoc. And the mayor of Washington, the federal capital, said he was even less convinced of a rapid recovery. "We don't expect the peak of hospitalizations until June," said Muriel Bowser on CNN.
While the United States is the country most affected by the coronavirus with 530,000 positive cases, Donald Trump, reports the New York Times Sunday in a long article, has been very slow to respond to the epidemic by not listening not its experts who warned it at the start of the year. Dr. Fauci, who has advised six US presidents, admitted that the balance sheet may have been lighter if the restrictions had been put in place more quickly. "But at the time, there was a lot of reluctance to close everything," he said on CNN, referring to a "complicated decision".
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