A leading science institute forecasts that U.S. coronavirus deaths will exceed 200,000 by Election Day.
Dr. Deborah Birx, President Donald Trump’s …
A leading science institute forecasts that U. S. coronavirus deaths will exceed 200,000 by Election Day. Dr. Deborah Birx, President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 response coordinator, says the epidemic has entered a new phase and is extraordinarily widespread. „Right now, the virus is winning and Americans are losing,“ says Dr. Tom Frieden, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And an America with 4% of the world’s population accounts for more than 22% of global lives reported lost to the disease. Never mind the president’s fanciful optimism. It is time to reset the nation’s fight against the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said Monday that America’s daily COVID-19 infection rate must fall to 10,000 by September — from the current 50,000 to 70,000, three times the rate of Europe — if the country stands any chance of gaining control over the virus, especially as colder weather will drive people indoors and flu season will compound the misery. Scientists are racing to develop therapeutics and vaccines, but in the meantime the death toll will continue to climb and the economy continue to fall as the epidemic persists in what noted epidemiologist Dr.
