While the Covid-19 mortality rate may be on the decline, the nearly 3 million cases and ICUs at capacity show the US is still in the grips of a pandemic with no signs of slowing.
While the Covid-19 mortality rate may be on the decline, the nearly 3 million cases and ICUs at capacity show the US is still in the grips of a pandemic with no signs of slowing.
«It’s a false narrative to take comfort in a lower rate of death,» the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci cautioned in a press conference Tuesday with Sen. Doug Jones, an Alabama Democrat. «There’s so many other things that are very dangerous and bad about this virus, don’t get yourself into false complacency.»
The White House has repeatedly pointed to the falling death rate as evidence of the nation having the virus under control. But many other pandemic metrics continue to surge.
Fauci warns against ‘false complacency’ as Trump touts falling coronavirus death rate
More than 2.9 million cases and 131,480 deaths have been reported across the country so far, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. And the United States saw a record number of 55,274 new cases Tuesday. Across the nation,31 states are seeing growing numbers of new cases from last week.
In Florida, where cases have surged, ICUs at 56 hospitals have reached capacity. And in Arizona, the state has been setting record high daily death counts about once a week, including Tuesday — the same day the state reported its lowest-ever number of available ICU beds.
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«We need medical professionals, we need testing kits, we need supplies immediately,» Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego told CNN’s Chris Cuomo Tuesday. «Our hospital is already in dire straits and they tell us in the next two weeks it is going to get to an unbearable level of crisis.»
California and Texas set grim records
California and Texas are among the states setting records as cases climb nationally.
With nearly 6,000 patients Tuesday, California hospitalizations are at an all-time high. Tuesday saw a 3.4% increase in new patients from the day before.
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