According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 1,37,000 deaths in the US so far. On July 7, the US filed record new cases in one day. More than 60 thousand.
Things are getting worse on the ground. According to the Washington Post, the burden on hospitals has increased. ICUs have also reached their potential. Health care workers are once again lacking masks, gloves and PPE.
According to USA Today, there are now more cases in China than in China, where the first cases of corona virus infection were found. Even assuming that China is reducing its figures, it still has a per capita infection rate in China's 140 million population - one person in 16000. At the same time one person in 110 people is corona infected.
Not only this, every year more deaths in America are caused by corona than other diseases. Like, 55,000 deaths occur in the US every year from common flu and 1 lakh 21 thousand from Alzheimer's. More deaths have been reported from Corona in the last 4 months.
The special thing is that the government says something else and the expert something else. When President Donald Trump spoke about the Corona infection, he could not express the seriousness of the threat in his own words.
Despite the situation still, the government is also talking about opening a school. President Trump is still saying that the US is in a good position in view of the epidemic. The US government is satisfied that the death rate from corona in the US is low and stable. The people of the US government are repeatedly giving the same assurance to the public.
Is the government not listening to the opinion of experts
America's infectious disease specialist Doctor Anthony Fauchi is also a White House adviser on coronaviruses. They are saying that it is wrong to insist on low mortality.
He has warned that this is only the first wave of Corona in America and in that America is completely entangled. If people do not take precaution, then there may be 1 lakh cases every day.
In March itself, Fauchi estimated that between 1 lakh and 2 lakh deaths could occur in the US. The figures which are present at present have proved their conjecture.
Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC organization, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention of America, said that the case is being reported and in fact 10 more people are infected. According to him, 5 to 8 percent of the population in the country has been infected.
Last month, CDC deputy director Dr Ann Shukut said in an interview that the US is not in the same situation as New Zealand, Singapore or South Korea, where new cases are detected as soon as possible and contact tracing isolates people. is done. But at present, there is too much virus in the US.
Government's emphasis on reducing death rate
So, the emphasis is on the recurrence of mortality and the governments of many countries are doing this, experts warn about that. According to the New York Times, elderly patients infected with corona are more likely to get hospitalized and the elderly are the most affected.
According to CDC statistics, in eight out of every 10 deaths, the age of the patient was over 65 years. But now even very young patients are coming corona positive and there is very less chance of death among them.
For example, in the US state of Arizona, half the cases are 20 to 44 years old. More than half of cases in Texas are under 50 years old. So when the death rate is extracted, it comes out rarely. Secondly, death is not just the result of Kovid 19 infection. People continue to have physical and mental problems even after recovery.
Why are cases increasing in America
There can be many reasons behind this, firstly, the government did not show speed in the beginning. The government did not understand the seriousness. Reduced tests, did not take steps to control the virus infection. Apart from America, there are other countries that have not taken immediate steps and there are a plethora of infected cases, such as Italy, Spain and Britain.
There were other problems, such as the state and local health departments not being allowed to make their own test kits, and so all samples were sent to the CDC in Atlanta. After that it was the CDC that sent bad test kits to the states which caused further delays.
Now summer has come and people are returning to their normal activities. It is being said that there is a thinking among the youth in America that they do not have much danger. There were reports that when the states relaxed the lockdown, young people were seen wandering. Without masking and not following social distancing, that is, underestimating the danger.
If we look at the case of such a large number of corona infects in America, then it seems that the government is saying different things, experts are saying different things and the message of its seriousness is not reaching even among the common people.