US has highest number of coronavirus cases in world: The number of US coronavirus infections climbed above 82,000 on Thursday, surpassing the national tallies of China and Italy,
Cities like New York, New Orleans and other hot spots faced a surge in hospitalizations and looming shortages of supplies, staff and sick beds.
The death-toll in the U.S from Covid-19 rose beyond 1,200, which is still less in-compared to China and Italy.
Actual Confirmed cases in the US hit 82,353 on Thursday evening, surpassing China at 81,782 and Italy at 80,589. The total number of confirmed cases globally is 523,163, according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University.
Apart from the number of cases and as per the reports, the United States is also facing low Medical facility, with insufficient Ventilators, Masks and limited diagnostic testing capacity, which in result, rose the death-toll rate and the number of cases(Covid-19 positive) globally. Mean-while the global death toll stood at 23,293.
U.S President Donald Trump stated that ”We are waging war on this virus using every financial, scientific, medical, pharmaceutical and military resource, to halt its spread and protect our citizens.
With about 40 percent of Americans under lockdown orders, Trump urged citizens to do their part by practicing social distancing: “Stay home and Just relax.
Any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the healthcare system, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told a news conference. He described the state’s projected shortfall in ventilators – machines that support the respiration of people have cannot breathe on their own – as astronomical.
City hospital, New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan, has begun a trial of sharing single ventilators between two patients.
While New York was the coronavirus epicenter in the United States this week, the next big wave of infections appeared headed for Louisiana, where demand for ventilators has already doubled. In New Orleans, the state’s biggest city, Mardi Gras celebrations late last month are believed to have fueled the outbreak.
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said New Orleans would be out of ventilators by April 2 and potentially out of bed space by April 7 if we don’t flatten the infection curve soon.
As there is an abundance of Healthcare workers and Scarcities of protective masks, gloves, gowns and eyewear for doctors and nurses(healthcare workers), abound of healthcare workers recycling old face masks, making their own or even using trash bags to shield themselves.
Also, the head of the largest U.S. nurses union, National Nurses United, Bonnie Castillo, told MSNBC that, Our nurses across the country do not have the personal protective equipment that is necessary to care for COVID patients or any of their patients.
With fears mounting of a global recession if not depression, leaders from the Group of 20 major economies held crisis talks by video link on Thursday, pledging a “united front” to fight the outbreak — along with an enormous financial injection.
“The virus respects no borders,” the leaders said in a statement.
“We are injecting over $5 trillion into the global economy, as part of targeted fiscal policy, economic measures, and guarantee schemes to counteract the social, economic and financial impacts of the pandemic.” leaders from the Group of 20 stated.
