The findings of Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, were clear on Tuesday, June 30. "Obviously we don't have total control right now" of the Covid-19 pandemic, he said during a Senate hearing. The expert added that he would not be "Not surprised if we reach 100,000 (case of contamination) a day if we don't reverse the trend ", he added. At the worst of the pandemic, the daily figure had never exceeded 35,000 daily cases. It reached 42,528 new infections and 1,199 deaths in 24 hours, according to the latest daily report from Johns Hopkins University.
Since mid-June, contamination has started to rise again, fueled mainly by the deterioration of the situation in states headed by republican governors: Arizona, Texas and Florida, where containment measures have been the least severe and most brief. But contaminations are also increasing in around 20 others.
In most cases, the steps for gradual reopening recommended by the federal government have not been followed. Contaminations are currently falling in only two states. The impact of this recovery on the number of deaths linked to Covid-19, which is still falling for the time being, is particularly feared. This deterioration explains the decision taken by the European Union to continue to prohibit access to its territory for American nationals. A real snub when other countries are now considered safe. Donald Trump first took this action against European nationals on March 11.
After loudly celebrating the first positive results on the economy of deconfinement measures in early June, the President of the United States either remains silent, or reiterates his wish to remove the health coverage bequeathed by his predecessor, Obamacare, while Congress is currently unable to agree on an alternative.
The tenant of the White House did not participate in the last meetings of the task force set up at the start of the pandemic, and, Tuesday, he also did not comment on the return of restrictive measures in the most affected states, such as the closure of beaches, bars, cinemas, and the obligation of wearing a mask. The latter has become all the more a subject of political tension that Donald Trump refuses to wear in public, unlike his Democratic opponent for the presidential election in November, Joe Biden.
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