The United States has become the primary focus of the Corona virus (Covid-19), after its president, Donald Trump, claimed to be safe from the virus.
The United States moved from monitoring the first infection with the Coronavirus on its territory in January 2020, to the announcement of an official outcome on Friday, exceeding one hundred thousand cases, according to the last census today, Saturday (March 28, 2020), which makes this country ranked first in the world in the number of cases of the Covid-19 pandemic. Note that the death rate (1600 people) is still low in the country compared to other countries.
And the state of New York became the epicenter of the epidemic in the United States, with about 45,000 cases and more than 500 deaths recorded as of Friday, which numbers are developing rapidly.
Trump and the political system?
At the start of the Corona epidemic crisis, President Donald Trump was accused of underestimating its seriousness by asserting, contrary to the opinion of health officials, that the spread of Corona virus locally is not "inevitable."
As infections progressed, the country appeared unable to effectively monitor people who had been in contact with those infected, due to the lack of widespread testing for HIV infections.
The government initially refused to lift some restrictions to allow states to develop their own checks, adding to the delay in facing the situation.
The Centers for Disease Control also sent invalid checks to the states, which increased the delay, and the government did not lift the restrictions imposed until February 29, the day of the first death in the United States, and after more than a month after the first infection was detected.
Gabor Kelen, director of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, told Agence France-Presse:
"If we could get to the monitoring of those who had communicated with the injured people, we might have found more cases quickly, and isolated the high prevalence sites."
American officials sought to defend themselves, and they said that the tests, which were developed by South Korea, the model country in terms of the collective casualty monitoring strategy, sometimes gave positive results by mistake. But Gabor Kelen responds: "The thing that I teach my students in medicine is: Anything is better than nothing, and the sooner the time is more worthwhile."
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