Chinanews.com reported on April 1 that the new crown pneumonia epidemic continued to spread in the United States. On March 31 local time, US President Trump warned at the White House outbreak briefing that the next two weeks would be "very painful." White House officials expect that US deaths will peak in the next two weeks.
On March 30th local time, the temporary medical site of the Javits Center in New York was completed, and a row of bed compartments were neatly arranged in the exhibition center exhibition hall. The medical unit is currently equipped with 1,000 beds, which can be increased to a maximum of 2900 beds. Photo by Liao Pan of China News Agency
"These two weeks can be very bad. It will be very bad two weeks, maybe three weeks. It will be three weeks we have never seen before." Trump said. "I want every American to be prepared for the tough times ahead," he said.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of 6:05 am on April 1st, Beijing time, there were 186,365 cases of new crown pneumonia in the United States, with 3810 deaths.
New York State has become a new center for global outbreaks, with more than 75,000 confirmed cases. Governor Cuomo said the state's outbreak may not reach its peak in three weeks. Como's brother Chris was also diagnosed with the new crown virus.
White House New Crown Virus Task Force Coordinator Deborah Birx and Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Fauci said on March 31 that they expect 100,000 to 200,000 deaths in the United States The number of deaths will peak in the next two weeks. Burkes showed the relevant models for predicting the epidemic at the press conference. According to a slide at the conference, the death toll could be as high as 240,000.
Fauci said that "mitigation measures are actually working" and that authorities are "making every effort to keep the death toll significantly below that figure".