Scientists know for sure that viruses aren’t tired of a pandemic, but other people are. This counts today, as America enters a harmful era in which government movements and Americans are likely to reduce the number of other people dying and the lives of our society. Values.
We know from the beginning of this pandemic that winter would be particularly bad in terms of disease transmission. Many politicians are proposing another speech, but public aptitude leaders have made it clear that we expect instances to accumulate and hospitals to become overwhelmed. Today we witness the dark clouds of the pandemic storm, which recall the worst days of spring and summer. Over the next week, the United States has recorded some of the highest figures of the year: more than a million new cases, just about 450,000 hospitalizations and nearly 8,300 deaths.
The holiday season, with cooler weather, more indoor gatherings and traveling families, is the end of the virus. While leading the Cinputs for Disease Control and Prevention in the early days of the H1N1 pandemic in the spring of 2009, we expected winter with But one of the classes at the time, and a critical point today, is that public fitness rules are as effective as other people’s ability to meet them. As we enter this complicated era of the pandemic, too many Americans are reluctant to do the things that would help mitigate the spread of the virus, Congress is at a stalemate, and many others simply don’t have what they want to be safe.
A long-awaited aid program is stuck in Congress, and the CARES Act and the next law that helped the country navigate the early stages of COVID-19 have been largely exhausted or come with provisions that will expire on December 31. Disappear. Improved income source bills for the unemployed and stimulus checks are gone, even though more than one million Americans have filed unemployment applications for 33 consecutive weeks. Thirty to 40 million tenants are threatened to waste their homes without ending the moratorium on evictions. The number of unsafe Americans is likely to exceed 30 million by the end of the year, a burden supported primarily by low-income staff and their families. Before the 2020 clock ends, the federal government will also need to be provided in the short term. Full-term states are suffering financially with this increase. Not doing so would be unacceptable.
We have already noticed this pandemic of how the essential staff that moves America forward, disproportionately other people of color, has paid the greatest value in lost lives and suffering. Millions of frontline staff want to do whatever it takes to protect themselves, their families and their communities, but they can’t because policies aren’t in a position to help them. Too many people are forced to decide between going to paint to put food on the table and paying rent, or staying at home so we want to make sure that everyone can do what is obligatory to prevent the spread of net paintings and save lives: wear masks, drive away society and isolate themselves in case of illness.
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Tenants and landlords will need to be sure that they can stay in a shelter for the duration of this pandemic and not be evicted in the middle of winter. Millions of other unhiringed people will have to have a source of financial aid to feed their families and people lucky enough to be hired want to be certain that if they or a family member get sick, they can take paid leave to protect their families, co-workers and clients. rising rates, a significant and permanent accumulation of more nutritional assistance benefits has long been needed, and states and fitness systems will need to have the budget to cope with this winter increase while making plans for a fair and immediate distribution of vaccines.
We cannot the fact that communities of color have suffered the most brutally from this pandemic because of this nation’s long legacy of structural racism. This and other truths have been improved this year through a motion for racial justice. Congress and other leaders in Washington will not forget that the disproportionate has an effect on what we have already seen, and that they do not allow this depressing year to end without a law to relieve pain. In the interests of public suitability and ethical decency, legislators should act to provide resources for others to protect their lives and livelihoods.
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As we look to the new year, we see flashes of hope. New knowledge published Monday by Moderna and last week of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine trial is promising. Studies have also shown that advances in the remedy have increased survival in COVID-19 We would possibly have more hope that a vaccine can also bring the beginning of the end of this pandemic, but that will not help us this winter. productive way to rebuild our economy, and that will have to be our purpose now and in the months to come.
We are reaching a quarter of a million deaths in the United States due to COVID-19. Without action by the federal and state governments, and without a renewed commitment by the public to meet public fitness guidelines, the 2020 tsunami of suffering will continue. well into the new year.
Richard E. Besser, a physician, is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey; follow him on Twitter: @DrRichBesser
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