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U.S. coronavirus 'extraordinarily widespread', say White House experts

By Doina Chiacu

 

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FILE PHOTO: Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House coronavirus response coordinator, addresses a news conference about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 22, 2020. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections "extraordinarily widespread" in rural areas as well as cities, White House coronavirus experts said on Sunday.

 

Coronavirus cases continue to surge in some parts of the country and the public health officials are trying to work with governors to tailor responses for each state.

 

"We are in a new phase," said Dr. Deborah Birx. "What we are seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread" in rural as well as urban areas.

 

"To everybody who lives in a rural area: You are not immune or protected from this virus," Birx said on CNN's "State of the Union."

 

Birx, the White House task force coordinator, said people living in multigenerational households in an area that is experiencing an outbreak should wear masks inside the home to protect the elderly or those with underlying conditions.

 

Admiral Brett Giroir, an assistant Health and Human Services secretary, continued to stress the importance of wearing masks.

 

"If we don't do that, and if we don't limit the indoor crowded spaces, the virus will continue to run," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

 

"We are very concerned and this is a very serious point."

 

The coronavirus, which first appeared in China, has infected 4.6 million people in the United States and killed more than 155,000 Americans, according to a Reuters tally.

 

The United States is in a new phase of the novel coronavirus outbreak with infections "extraordinarily widespread" in rural areas as well as cities, a White House coronavirus expert said on Sunday. Lisa Bernhard produced this report.

 

 

Birx said federal officials have been working on individual reports for each state examining community trends and hospital records. "Each of these responses have to be dramatically tailored," she said.

 

She said what she witnessed as she visited 14 states over the last three weeks gave her cause for concern.

 

"As I traveled around the country, I saw all of America moving," Birx said. "If you have chosen to go on vacation into a hot spot, you really need to come back and protect those with comorbidities and assume you're infected."

 

If people wear masks and avoid crowds, Giroir said, it gives the same outcome as a complete shutdown.

 

"That's why we're going to all the states, we're on local radio, we give specific instructions to every governor by county, what they need to do when we start – when those counties start tipping yellow, because that's the time when you have to stamp it down," he said.

 

(Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

 

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5 hours ago, shdmn said:

Yea, they don't even think the fact he passed a dementia test without cheating, unlike his SATs, is not totally awesome.

The test is not a “pass fail” test. it’s an indication of possibly having or starting to have dementia.
 

You only have information from him, and he is known for inventing his own “truth”

 

I have no opinion as to any changes in his mental health. 
 

Perfectly normal individuals do not usually take tests for conditions they don’t have or are not suspected of having.

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"If people wear masks and avoid crowds, Giroir said, it gives the same outcome as a complete shutdown."

This is from the doctor on the Trump team, so please skip rant about demos or mass media

Given the spotty at best wearing of masks (on chins, under noses, or not at all) and gatherings here in Thailand, I am not optimistic. Farangs much worse than Thais from what I have observed

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8 hours ago, taxout said:

Keep your eye on what counts: deaths and hospitalizations, not reported infections.

 

Look at the chart of Covid deaths over the past several months (Table 1):

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm

 

Does that chart suggest we've now entered a dangerously critical new phase?

 

The trouble with your analysis is that the chart makes it look like the number of deaths is reaching zero. This is only the case because of the way deaths are reported. The reported number of deaths PER DAY is between 450 and 500 with some variation.

 

The reported deaths on a particular day only tell you about the number of infections that occurred about three weeks or more before that date. If you are only going to rely on that data, you are going to be severely hampered in getting ahead of the pandemic. You could have a declining death rate for weeks with a surge in cases at the same time - the surge will only appear in the mortality figures at least several weeks later.

 

So the only way to get ahead of the virus is to try to test as much as possible and trace contacts. Otherwise, you won't be looking at 500 per day in a month or two's time but thousands per day dying.

 

The Covid-19 deaths in the USA is now almost three times the number of American servicemen and women who died in the Vietnam war. Back then, Americans thought that the number of servicemen who died in Vietnam over at least a decade was shocking.

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9 hours ago, Yinn said:

The USA fighting statues, black and white, hard right and leftys, republican and Democrat, statues. Anti maskers, anti vaxxers, anti tracing apps etc etc. 

Amazing stupid. Amazing selfish. 

 

Covid not care about this nonsense. 

 

 

 

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