A few days ago, on the pages of the American Wall Street Journal, US Vice President Mike Pence boasted of the low numbers of deaths from the emerging corona virus.
Pence ridiculed those who sounded the "alarm bells" of the continued spread of the virus, saying "We are winning the battle", but the following days carried news that did not support the optimism of the American Vice President.
It is only days after Pence's statement that the situation inside the United States has changed, and John Hopkins University, which closely follows the epidemiological situation, announced mid-Friday Friday the death of 2,494 people and the injury of 45,992 people within 24 hours due to the Corona pandemic.
This is a new record in the number of injuries recorded in one day in the United States, bringing the total injuries to two million and 470 thousand cases, and 126 thousand people died, while 765 thousand recovered.
These figures show a significant increase in cases and numbers of deaths after many experts expected to start controlling the spread of the virus within the country, while President Donald Trump's administration doubled its pressure to restart the economy before the presidential elections on November 3.
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Geography of the virus
The largest epidemics of transmission in America have moved from the east, specifically from the states of New York and New Jersey, to the states of the south and west of the United States, where the numbers of infections and deaths increased in the states of Florida, Texas and Arizona.
The assistant professor at the College of Medicine at Hopkins University Khalid al-Shami explains that the transmission of virus hotspots "is due first to the lack of commitment by these states to completely close the early stages of the spread of the virus, then the negligence of the consequences of the disease, ignoring the measures of social separation, and finally reopening commercial activities early before control On the spread of the virus. "
The state of Texas reopened its economy on April 30th, while Florida and Arizona reopened their economies on May 4, and Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced yesterday the stopping of "plans to reopen the economy" in the second most populous US state, More than 25 million people live in it.
"The last thing we want to do is to go back and re-close the economy, because what is happening now is a temporary closure in order to stop the spread of the virus so that we can enter the next stage of opening up the economy," said Texas Republican governor close to Trump.
The state of Texas, in the south-central US, was one of the first to begin reopening commercial and economic enterprises. The state allowed early to reopen restaurants and eat inside, and reopen beauty salons, cinemas, theaters, shopping malls and gyms, which won approval from Trump in exchange for widespread criticism from Democrats.
Re-closing
The last hours witnessed many famous institutions back down from plans to reopen or sell directly to the public. Disneyland, California, suspended all reopening and operating plans that were scheduled to start on the 17th of next month, and postponed the matter to a date to be determined later.
And the technology giant Apple has closed many of the stores that it opened during the past weeks in states that have high rates of injuries, especially in the states of the south and west, then Microsoft followed it, which announced on Friday that it will close all its 83 stores, and will move to electronic sales only.
On the other hand, the Trump administration has defended plans to close 13 corona virus testing laboratories funded by the federal government by the end of this month, and the number of these centers exceeds the 40 in the United States, and the American president attributed the increase in the number of infections among Americans with the Corona virus to increasing virus detection tests , Which has passed 30 million tests so far.
Al-Shami believes that what President Trump said is true, pointing out that it is not acceptable to reduce the number of tests in order to reduce the number of injuries, because this is a matter related to the lives of millions of people, and it should not be subject to political or election calculations.
Al-Shamy believes that the increase in the American youth infected with the Corona virus "is due to your behavior and their enthusiasm to quickly return to restaurants, cafes, night clubs and parties, and their lack of commitment to social divergence measures"
Al-Shami adds that the increasing number of the injured American youth "is due to your behavior and enthusiasm to quickly return to restaurants, cafes, night clubs and parties, and their lack of commitment to social divergence procedures."
Fuchi is disappointed,
and Anthony Fuchi, chief government expert on the Corona Crisis Cell in white eggs, expressed pessimism before Congress, noting that the United States was experiencing a "disturbing increase" in new infections and deaths due to the virus.
Fauchi said he was disappointed by the failure to stem the continued spread of the virus due to the lack of respect for many of the health recommendations recommended by experts.
The US official warned that his country could face next winter a second wave of the pandemic, more serious than the current one.