Vice President Mike Pence said Monday that Americans expect a buildup of Covid-19 cases “in the coming days” as tests accumulate and some Midwest states show trends worried about coronavirus.
The positive Covid-19 test rate is now expanding in 10 Midwest and West states, Pence said at a White House press convention in the Rose Garden with President Donald Trump. With this progression and america’s “historic breakthrough. “in the evidence, “the public” must anticipate that cases will accumulate in the coming days,” he added.
“But because we more easily identify those with coronaviruses, other Americans can be sure,” he said.
The United States has the worst epidemic in the world, with more than 7. 1 million cases and at least 204881 deaths, according to knowledge compiled through Johns Hopkins University. On Monday, Reuters reported that the positive test rate for Covid-19 exceeded 25% in several Midwesweser states, while the number of instances and hospitalizations is also higher in the region.
Trump and other U. S. officials have warned that the highest evidence is an explanation for why the United States has the highest instances in the world, but infectious disease experts and scientists pointed to rates of hospitalization, death, and positivity, which involve the percentage of evidence that goes back positive in a given region, to dispel this claim.
Earlier in the day, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, said the United States “is not in a smart position” as the coldest months approached and the number of recently reported coronavirus cases continued to increase beyond 40,000 people each day. .
“There are states that are starting to show an increase in cases and even an increase in hospitalizations in some states,” Fauci told ABC’s “Good Morning America” in an interview broadcast Monday.
“And I hope not, however, it’s quite possible that we’ll start to see an increase in the number of deaths,” Fauci said. He added that he feared being “on a stage like this when the weather starts to improve. cold. “
The U. S. government plans to distribute 150 million immediate Covid-19 tests conducted through Abbott Laboratories in “the coming weeks” as the country enters its fall season, Trump announced Monday at the press conference. He said about $100 million of the evidence will be used. reopen schools, while $50 million will go to nursing homes and services.
Abbott had said in the past that he planned to send tens of millions of tests in September, reaching 50 million tests per month since early October.
Trump also reiterated his statement that the U. S. epidemic is “turning the corner” and added that the country has “too many states that are blocked right now. “
“No one what the governors are actually doing, ” he said.
Trump proposed vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson
“Vaccines are coming, we’re turning the corner anyway,” he said.
– Noah Higgins-Dunn of CNBC contributed to this report.
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