China News Service, May 5 (Xinhua News Agency) reported on the 4th that US President Trump urged states to restart the economy, but the "New York Times" internal government forecasts show that the number of new crown diagnoses and deaths in the next few weeks or a surge. However, the White House responded that the newspaper did not obtain White House documents, and the relevant data was not provided to the White House Epidemic Prevention Working Group or was reviewed by an inter-ministerial meeting.
According to reports, the New York Times obtained a document from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) containing the government's estimated model. One of the charts shows that the number of newly diagnosed cases of new coronavirus diseases in the United States will reach 20 on June 1. About 10,000 cases, far higher than the current level of about 25,000 new cases per day; the number of deaths per day is expected to increase to about 3,000.
Data map: On May 3 local time, someone put on a mask for the Gandhi sculpture in Union Square in New York, which attracted the attention of many passers-by. China News Agency reporter Liao Panshe
The IHME model of the University of Washington ’s Health Metrics Evaluation Research Center (IHME), which is often quoted by the White House, also revised its forecast on the 4th. It is estimated that 134,000 people will die from the epidemic in the United States, nearly double the previous estimate.
"The New York Times" pointed out that the latest forecast highlights that even if the American people are at home for several weeks, the risk of infection remains high. Public health experts worry that restarting the economy at this time will only worsen the epidemic, allowing the United States to reproduce the surge in cases in mid-March and the overcrowding of hospitals in some areas.
In this regard, White House spokesman Judd Deere said that the New York Times did not obtain White House documents, nor did the relevant data be provided to the White House Epidemic Prevention Working Group or reviewed by the inter-ministerial meeting. Model or data that has been analyzed. "
Deere said that Trump ’s policy of restarting the nation ’s economy in three phases was based on science and was recognized by the top public health and infectious disease experts within the federal government.
However, the former US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Director Gautrib said that the measures to slow the spread of the virus have not failed, but the effect is not as expected. "We had expected that by now, the number of new cases and deaths in the country will be significantly reduced. , This did not happen. "
According to statistics from real-time statistics of Johns Hopkins University in the United States, as of 6:32 on the 5th, Beijing time, more than 1.17 million people were infected with the new coronavirus and 68,000 people were killed.
Over the past month or so, governments in many places in the United States have asked people to stay home as far as possible, the economy has shut down on a large scale, and the number of unemployed has skyrocketed. Seeing the resurgence of economic resurgence, Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas and other states have all restarted their economies as the number of confirmed cases continues to increase.