Trump’s rush to reopen America doesn’t match the coronavirus reality
reality, if you will. Here, the U.S. still lacks the testing capacity medical experts say is needed to track outbreaks. The health care system continues to strain in its battle against the deadly virus. The maximum 60,000 deaths Trumplast week? The nation has already suffered close to 65,000 as of Friday, as infections continue to rise across the country—despite shelter-in-place restrictions that have at least slowed the spread.
These two versions of reality are poised to collide as Trump moves toward reopening the country. NBC News on Thursday that the federal government last week placed an order for 100,000 new body bags, bracing for an influx of COVID victims. “I hope to God that they don’t need my order,”of E.M. Oil Transport Inc., the company the government ordered the body bags from, told the outlet.
of battling a virus experts still do not fully understand, without a proven treatment or vaccine to fight it or an adequate testing system to track it. “You’re making a really significant risk,” Dr.But that’s precisely what several states, encouraged by Trump, have been doing. “He’s doing a great job,” Trumpthis week, who is relaxing mitigation measures he’d resisted implementing in the first place. “He’s got great numbers.
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