Coronavirus: Concern in the United States about …

Coronavirus cases keep growing in the United States, the country hardest hit by the pandemic with more than 350 thousand deaths. According to a report published by Johns Hopkins University, In the past 24 hours, nearly 300,000 cases have been recorded, setting a new record just two days after reaching 20 million infections.

Despite the fact that the United States already has two approved vaccines that are applied -those of Pfizer and Moderna laboratories, lack of preventive measures such as the widespread and compulsory use of face masks and respect for social distancing maintained and even accelerated the upward trend in coronavirus infection and death curves.

According to the American university’s count, Only in the past 24 hours has the country registered 299,087 new cases and 2,398 deaths, bringing the total to over 20.4 million and 350,214, respectively.

Even if US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, the state entity that directs the official figures, sare more conservative than those at university, the outgoing president, Donald Trump, accused the institution of having “exaggerated” the expansion of the pandemic.

“The number of cases and deaths from the Chinese virus (the coronavirus) is greatly exaggerated in the United States due to the CDC. They use a ridiculous method of determination compared to other countries, many of which report, on purpose, very inaccurate and weak. “When in doubt, call it COVID.” Fake news! “the president said on his Twitter account, without presenting any evidence that the official figures are not accurate.

President Trump has spoken out against preventive measures and even ridiculed his opponent, President-elect Joe Biden, during the election campaign for wearing a mask. Trump has also attacked epidemiologists, whom he called “idiots” and promised that if re-elected he would fire Anthony Fauci, the senior infectious disease specialist in his administration.

This week, Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, argued that only a small portion of the vaccines distributed were applied, which has sparked a debate over the possible impact of the sector questioning the safety and veracity of vaccines, a group that the president himself has flirted with more than once.

“Vaccines are being delivered to states much faster than they are able to deliver them,” Trump replied., to explain why To date, there are only four million vaccinated while there are more than 14 million doses distributed.

The outgoing president also questioned the media for presenting Fauci as “a great professional” who did “an incredible job”. “But it works for me and for the Trump administration and I have no credit for the work I have done. Could this be more fake news? Trump wrote.

Meanwhile, coronavirus cases continue to rise in various states. North Carolina and Arizona have again reported record infections, while southern California sees mortuaries on the verge of collapse And so the state had to prepare refrigerated trucks to avoid a mortuary crisis as we saw during the first wave in New York last April.

On Saturday, one of the most followed statistical models of the coronavirus evolution in the United States, the The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Measurement and Evaluation predicted 115,000 more deaths for January, two-thirds of the more than 77,500 recorded in December, the deadliest month since the start of the pandemic.