Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s leading infectious disease expert, warned that the upcoming holiday season may be even worse than Thanksgiving in terms of the spread of coronavirus.
Fauci told CNN Monday that because the classic holiday season is a protracted era that extends to the New Year, users spread the virus when other people “may be even worse than we saw on Thanksgiving. “
After millions of others ignored the experts’ recommendations and traveled for the Thanksgiving vacation in November, Fauci predicted that Americans would behave recklessly on the Christmas and New Year holidays.
Fauci said the United States faces a “very critical period” with the virus outbreak and that it is more vital than ever for others to take precautions such as avoiding indoor meetings, dressing in masks, and social esttachment.
“No one needs to change, if not close, their holiday season, yet we live at a very critical time in this country right now,” Fauci said.
Fauci’s caution comes when California forced much of the state to close and citizens to house Monday, when some of the strictest restrictions on coronaviruses in the United States came into effect a day after the state set a record with more than 30,000 new ones. covid19.
In the most populous state in the United States, the infections shown exceeded 1. 3 million, bringing new records of hospitalizations and deaths.
Governor Gavin Newsom’s order soared into spaces where less than 15% of extensive care hospital beds were available, affecting more than 23 million people in Southern California.
The new order, which will last at least 3 weeks, prohibits personal meetings of any size, closes all critical infrastructure and retail operations, and requires everyone to wear a mask and physical distance [Eric Risberg/AP Photo] in addition, five counties in Northern California surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area have voluntarily imposed restrictions before they even reached the threshold of the care unit.
Newsom, a Democrat for the first time, has threatened to withhold the budget of governments they refuse to comply with.
California has been the subject of an internal order for all facilities, essential facilities since March. The new order, which will last at least 3 weeks, prohibits personal meetings of any size, closes everything, even critical infrastructure and retail operations, and requires everyone to wear a mask and maintain a physical distance.
Admiral Brett Giroir, undersecretary of fitness at the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, is a member of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services. The U. S. denounced the new measures on Monday and said that ending transmission of the disease can only be achieved by vaccinating most Americans, a purpose he told the nation. to succeed until May or June next year.
California reported more than 30,000 new cases on Sunday, surpassing the last high of 21,986 in the state set on December 4, and set a new record for patients hospitalized by COVID-19 [Jeff Chiu/AP Photo] “You don’t have to close your industries, you have to wear a mask that’s important when you’re in public and can’t physically walk away,” Giroir told Fox News.
He said he plans to get vaccinated once it becomes available and that lately there is no knowledge of the closure of schools, universities and outdoor restaurants.
“And we see that these measures can be counterproductive,” he added, “people get angry and disappointed because science doesn’t, science restricts restaurants and bars inside. “
Sheriffs in Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties said they would refuse to accept the order, encouraging non-essential companies to remain open.
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said in a video message that his workplace would “not be blackmailed” to enforce the governor’s orders, and Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said in a message that his aides would not respond to calls to enforce violations of the court order. -Home orders or prohibition of social gatherings.
People queuing to be reviewed by COVID-19 at a check in the North Hollywood segment of Los Angeles [Richard Vogel/AP Photo] but the mayor of a Los Angeles county in the city has supported stricter compliance measures.
“People will surely be arrested for not wearing masks,” Lancaster Mayor R Rex Perris told the Orange County Register. “Most of those other people have never been arrested before. They spend one night in jail and they probably wouldn’t do it again. ” »
Across the country, COVID-19 infections have reached a new peak with an average of more than 191,000 cases reported in the past seven days, according to the COVID Monitoring Project.
According to a Johns Hopkins University account, 14. 7 million infections and 282,375 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported in the country since the onset of the pandemic.
Governments around the world are imposing stricter restrictions, blockades due to the accumulation of numbers.
“We are at war with one virus, not another,” U. S. President-elect Biden said in a speech before Thanksgiving.
Court action can cause New York to re-think about its restrictions on places of worship in virus-designated hot spots.
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