American Broadcasting Corporation reported on October 1 that currently about 1 in 7 Americans has tested positive for new crown virus, and 1 in every 469 Americans died of new crown pneumonia. .
According to reports, about 97% of the counties in the United States currently report a "high level" or "large amount" of community transmission of the epidemic. Due to the rising number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, the capacity of hospitals in some states in the United States is about to reach a critical value. Among them, Alabama, Georgia , Idaho and Texas have only about 10% or less available beds in intensive care units. North Dakota The six largest hospitals reported that 43 patients have been forced to be transferred to other medical institutions for treatment.
US media: The death rate in rural areas is nearly twice that of urban areas
According to a report by CBS on October 1, the death rate of COVID-19 in rural areas in the United States is almost the same as in urban areas. Twice the death rate. The latest data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that within two weeks, about 0.95 of every 100,000 residents living outside the city will die from the new coronary pneumonia. In cities, about 0.55 people die from new coronary pneumonia per 100,000 people. In addition, with the rising number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia, rural hospitals in many parts of the United States are also facing challenges such as the reduction of available beds and difficulty in transferring patients to large hospitals.
ineffective in fighting the epidemic The US government has failed at almost every step
More than 700,000 Americans have lost their lives due to the new crown pneumonia-the United States is the well-deserved "world's first failed country in the fight against the epidemic."
The U.S. government’s ineffective fight against the epidemic has long attracted criticism from many sources. Looking back at the development of the U.S. epidemic, it is not difficult to find that the U.S. epidemic has been trapped in a cycle of “deterioration-mitigation-rebound”. One step is failure.
At the beginning of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia in the United States, the US government has always adopted a passive evasive attitude, deliberately downplaying the severity of the epidemic, and missed the best time to prevent and control the epidemic. In fact, it is not that the senior government of the United States is unaware of the seriousness of the problem. The US media exposed an internal meeting recording in February 2020. Intelligence officials clearly pointed out that the spread of the new crown virus is the strongest in modern history.
In February 2020, the then U.S. President Trump said, "It (the new crown virus) will disappear, and one day it will disappear like a miracle."
In this way, the lies of politicians gradually dominate the United States The society's understanding of the epidemic, the national level no longer has a strategy aimed at fundamentally mitigating the epidemic. Political considerations such as how to benefit the party's general election and gaining higher approval ratings have penetrated deeply into affairs related to the fight against the epidemic.
In late March 2020, the number of newly confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 10,000 in a single day. During the intensification of the epidemic, the White House's various remarks have brought misleading to Americans and ultimately caused the people to pay a heavy price. For example, it frantically advocates the efficacy of antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine ; claims that ultraviolet radiation and injection of disinfectants can eliminate the new coronavirus. Such nonsense caused some American people to believe it was true and caused misfortune.
In April 2020, then US President Trump said, "I saw disinfectant wipe out the virus in one minute, just one minute. Is there a way to achieve this effect? Through internal injections, or similar cleaning methods."
According to the New York Times, at the beginning of the outbreak, the leaders of the previous US government often ignored the warnings of scientists and gave "crazy" suggestions that lacked scientific basis. In order to "play down" the situation of the epidemic, the government has even tampered with data on the epidemic many times. Under the disinformation that is highly politicized in the United States,With the help of American politician anti-intellectualism , truth and science gave way to politics, and the safety of people’s lives was ignored. As the epidemic gets out of control day by day, the United States is in chaos. The conflicts between the federal government and some state governments are fierce, and they even scrambled for medical supplies.
On April 2, 2020, Kushner, a senior adviser to the White House at the time, said that the federal government’s reserves are prepared for the federal government itself, not for individual states, and each state should solve it by itself. Own problem.
Politicians take the lead in the word "private", and it is difficult to form a joint anti-epidemic force. To make matters worse, in order to avoid the economic downturn affecting political performance, the US government has forcibly restarted the economy despite the opposition of experts. From the end of April to May 2020, when the epidemic in the United States was still severe, various states successively restarted economic activities, leading to a rapid rebound of the epidemic.
On November 4, 2020, the number of new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 100,000 in a single day. At the time of the US presidential election, the epidemic has become a "political card" for the two parties to attack each other, and major decisions related to the epidemic have frequently encountered twists and turns.
On November 29, 2020, Deborah Burks, then the coordinator of the US White House Coronavirus Response Task Force, said, “So if your governor or mayor does not implement the key measures we know, including (requires ) Wear masks, maintain social distancing, avoid bars, and avoid crowded indoor areas. If these restrictions do not exist in your state, you need to take responsibility for restricting yourself."
January 20 this year, Biden After being sworn in as the president of the United States, the fighting between the two parties has not ceased, and the federal government and local governments have held each other in check. Whether or not to support wearing masks still depends on political stance. Even the new crown vaccination plan that the American people have high hopes can hardly circumvent the political struggle in the United States.
American Johns Hopkins Center for Health and Safety Researcher Amesh Adalja: The governors of each state say east, the federal government says west, you don’t know which statement is true, everywhere (vaccination policy) They all seem to be different. Obviously this is a failure and unacceptable.
Facing the surging epidemic,The U.S. government’s response has been engulfed in a snowball of political polarization, which has led to social tears. As the "Washington Post" pointedly pointed out, the historical failure of the United States to fight the epidemic proves that the poor prevention and control of the epidemic in the United States is a "total man-made disaster".
The American monthly magazine "The Atlantic" even lamented: "Americans wake up every morning and feel that they are living in a failed country." The US " New England Journal of Medicine " published a review article saying that the United States has failed at almost every step in the process of responding to the epidemic.
(Original title: 1 in 7 Americans tested positive for the new crown, the US media approves the government’s ineffective fight against the epidemic: almost every step has failed)
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