More Americans have died over two months in this pandemic than died in a decade long tragic war in Vietnam. Trump said it was one person coming in from China. That it would magically go away in April. That fears were an overblown hoax. He was dead wrong.
pic.twitter.com/NdATJfemap— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 28, 2020
Something to look forward to:
More than 20 film festivals around the world have joined together to stream movies free on YouTube after the cancellation of annual showcases in Cannes and New York https://t.co/SQXCtTkyEl pic.twitter.com/JQy4Mt47BN
— Reuters (@Reuters) April 28, 2020
Something nobody is looking forward to:
A second round of the coronavirus is 'inevitable,' the nation's leading epidemiologist says, but just how bad it is will depend on the progress the US makes in the coming months. https://t.co/XxfiXBMP76
— CNN (@CNN) April 29, 2020
… “If by that time we have put into place all of the countermeasures that you need to address this, we should do reasonably well,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said. “If we don’t do that successfully, we could be in for a bad fall and a bad winter.”
If states begin lifting restrictions too early, Fauci says he predicts the country could see a rebound of the virus that would “get us right back in the same boat that we were a few weeks ago,” adding that the country could see many more deaths than are currently predicted.
So far, more than 1 million Americans have been infected and at least 58,355 have died. A leading model predicts more than 72,000 people will die in the US by early August.
Being able to test for the virus, track cases and isolate every infected American will be key factors in ensuring that second wave isn’t as deadly, Fauci says…
Fauci says the federal government needs to provide strategic guidance and assistance to help states up their number of conducted tests. He hopes he can guarantee everyone who needs a test can get one by the end of May or early June.
“The truth is that we’re going in the right direction,” he said. “But we need to continue to partner in a very active collaborative way with the states, we need to help them the same way they need to do the execution.”…
And some random, get-yourself-dancing music, just as a sweetner…
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