May 22, 2020 / By mobanmarket
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A leading member of the White House’s team of health experts working on the new coronavirus pandemic gave a hopeful update to the country as a whole but also a warning that several areas have been identified as new hot spots for the virus.
Dr. Deborah Birx, the coronavirus response coordinator for the Trump administration, has identified Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. as “areas of concern” for the spread of the virus.
On Thursday, though, Birx at a news conference of the White House Coronavirus Task Force that the attack rates for the virus are lower than those in some of the early U.S. hot spots.
“The original outbreaks were very large, but the newer ones that we talk about in Washington and Philadelphia and Baltimore, it looks like their attack rates and attack rates in Denver and some of these other states we have been talking about are much lower than New York and New Jersey,” Birx said.
She added that the attack rate in New York was seven in 1,000 but new attack rates in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington D.C. are one to two per 1,000.
With other cities in the nation beginning to brace for the apex of coronavirus cases, New York has reason to believe it is getting to the downside of the slope. New COVID-19 hospitalizations on Thursday dropped to the lowest number in the state since March 18.
Despite the small signs of hope in New York, the reality for its residents remain somber.
New York State has more coronavirus cases than any country on the planet.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that 159,937 New Yorkers had tested positive and 7,067 have lost their lives to the virus. The astonishing figure means the Empire State has roughly 7,500 more cases than Spain and 20,000 more than Italy, the latter of which only recently was the global coronavirus hot spot.
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It’s been 24 hours since America saw the release of another grim jobless report for the United States. One in 10 workers is now without a job, and the country is on track to see its highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression.
About 6.6 million people filed for jobless benefits last week, bringing the three-week total to 16.8 million. The numbers represent the largest and fastest string of job losses on records dating to 1948.
The number of jobless claims illustrates the staggering economic impact of the coronavirus; the outbreak is believed to have erased nearly one-third of the economy’s output in the current quarter.
Restaurants, hotels, department stores and countless small businesses have laid off millions as they struggle to pay bills at a time when their revenue has vanished.
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With so many Americans out of work, it may be hard for us to feel hopeful right now, but President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would like to reopen the economy in the near future.
“Hopefully we’re going to be opening up the economy, very very, very, very soon,” Trump said at the news conference.
The president also added that the United States has now completed more than 2 million coronavirus tests, adding that the tests are “highly sophisticated and highly accurate.”
“We have, right now, the best testing system in the world,” Trump said Thursday.
Still, many people across the country, including some who have shown symptoms inclduing shortness of breath and fevers, are unable to get tested.
Trump’s hopeful comments about the economy come as the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow in the United States, with more than 460,000 confirmed cases and over 16,500 deaths as of Thursday night.
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“We only have words now,” said the wife of a Park Slope hospital nurse whose daily exposure to coronavirus keeps him from his family.
The husband of an Arizona woman who started a holiday tradition in 2016 when she mistakenly texted a stranger and asked him to Thanksgiving dinner has died of complications from the new coronavirus.
Gov. Ned Lamont announced Connecticut schools will remain closed well into May because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The stay-at-home order in Michigan has been extended as the numbers of statewide coronavirus cases and deaths attributed to the virus continue to rise.
State officials have again postponed Georgia’s primary election, this time until June 9. The announcement was made Thursday from Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office.
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