70-150 million people face the threat of an emerging coronavirus in the United States, according to an estimate transmitted to the US Senate, while Democrats have sharply criticized the White House administration for the health crisis hitting the country.
The Democratic Representative, Rashida Taleb, spoke Thursday during a hearing of members of the Special Force devoted to fighting Corona in the country, announcing that "the doctor attached to Congress told the Senate that he expected 70-150 million people to be infected with the virus in the United States," confirming reports reported by American media. .
The Axios website quoted two sources as saying that Dr. Brian Munahan passed the forecast to Senate and Republican officials on Tuesday, asking them to prepare for the worst.
The most pessimistic hypothesis indicates that 46% of the 327 million Americans will be infected with the virus. In comparison, German Chancellor Angela Merkel had warned that 70% of the German population could be infected with the virus.
The death rate is around 1%, according to the latest estimates transmitted Wednesday to Congress by Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases Anthony Fockey.
Based on this percentage, this could mean recording between 700,000 and 1.5 million deaths in the United States.
For comparison, heart disease - the leading cause of disease deaths in the United States - resulted in 650,000 deaths in 2018, while influenza and pneumonia combined resulted in 60,000 deaths.
Cautious
Anthony Fockey replied to a question to Rachida Tlaib about whether he believed in the accuracy of this estimate regarding the numbers of Americans likely to be infected in the future, saying "we have to be careful with this type of estimate, because it is based on standard models."
He added that "the quality of the model depends on the nature of the assumptions that flow from it," noting that it is possible to avoid the more pessimistic estimate thanks to the work to contain the spread of the epidemic.
He noted that the model developed in 2014 by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ebola epidemic, was expecting more than a million people infected, adding that those with the outcome were less than 30,000.
On the other hand, the Ohio State Governor said that the Department of Health estimates that about 1% of the state's population is infected with the Corona virus.
Ohio State Governor Mike Dewain said he was aware that "1% of our state's population is infected with the Corona virus today, which means that more than 100,000 people are infected with it."
Dwayne added in an interview with "CNN" news "We may reach a stage where we are not able to perform Corona tests due to the large number of injuries."
In a parallel context, the two candidates seeking to obtain the Democratic nomination card for the American presidential elections, Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, criticized the way President Donald Trump managed the Corona virus file, condemning his "inefficiency" and "his resort to xenophobia".
Health experts have also criticized the authorities for downplaying this crisis and delaying the development of screening tests.
Biden from Wilmington, Delaware, said, "The administration's failure with the tests is enormous, it has failed to prepare, direct and implement."
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