EVEN THE AMERICAN HEALTH SYSTEM IS STRUGGLING IN FRONT OF COVID-19

                     The World Health Organization experts and according to latest statistics are saying that the United States is going to be the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak, as the country is seeing a very large acceleration in cases, this comes amid concern the US president could be prioritizing the economy in his crisis response. Trump said he was eager to reopen the US economy in weeks, not months, even as the death toll from COVID-19 continued to rise, with more than 25,000 positive tests and 210 deaths, New York has become the epicenter of Coronavirus in the United States, the city now at a standstill faces a tsunami of sick and dying people, the Attack rate of the virus, the percentage of the population infected, is five times higher than in other parts of the country, leading Dr Deborah Birx, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, to warn "To all of my friends and colleagues in New York, this is the group that needs to absolutely social distance and self isolate at this time" Authorities are scouring the world for the ventilators, masks and gowns needed for an unfolding public health emergency that is expected to peak in the next three weeks. Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a federal major disaster declaration said, Louisiana has more cases per capital than state, except for New York and Washington. He wrote "We have overwhelmed our stocks of key resources needed for our hospitals, first responders and emergency managers" But in recent days the numbers in Louisiana, New Jersey and several other states also have been skyrocketing.
Louisiana, which reported no cases until mid-March, topped the 1,000 mark and the state has seen more than 500 new cases reported since the weekend with 1,388 cases and 46 deaths by Tuesday afternoon, at the time when Trump wants the country to opened up and just raring to go by Easter, despite health experts warnings, . New Jersey added more than 800 cases between Monday and Tuesday, for a total of 3,675 positive tests and 44 deaths. That makes it the second highest state case total in the country, last week alone, cases increased tenfold, the state is under a lock down order, Gov Phil Murphy said not everyone is adhering to the mandate, we must have 10% compliance because this is a bout public health and it's about people's lives, your employees' lives, their families' lives and your life.

The Javits Center, a hulking glass conference space in Manhattan, has been transformed into a field hospital with 2,000 beds installed, Andrew Cuomo the New York governor who has garnered praise for his handling of the crisis said "The apex of this pandemic is higher and sooner than we thought, I will turn this state upside down to get the hospital beds we need" he also condemned Fema and the Trump administration again, saying: You want a pat on the back for sending 400 ventilators? what are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000 ventilators? you are missing the magnitude of the problem and the problem is defined by the magnitude. The number of cases was higher in New York, he said, because it started here first because we have global travelers coming here first, because we have more density than other places, you will see this in suburban communities across the country, we are just a test case and that's how the nation should look at it, where we are today you will be in three weeks or six weeks. Even as leaders such as Cuomo scramble to cope with a step increase of sick patients while urging people to stay at home and avoid social contact, Trump has signaled that he is prepared to wind down restrictions at the end of a 15 days lock down, window in an attempt to bolster the economy and a sagging stock market, he said: Our country was not built to be shut down, this is not a country that was built for this, America will again and soon be open for business, i'm not looking at months, i can tell you right now.
Michigan's total rose from just 65 cases about week ago to 1,791 on Tuesday afternoon including 15 deaths, Pennsylvania saw a spike of more than 200 cases overnight, bringing the total to 851 cases statewide with 7 deaths from those cases, Florida and Georgia, two states where political leaders have faced criticism over timing on enacting restrictions, both crossed the 1,000 cases over the weekend and continue to tise significantly each day, as of Tuesday evening Florida recorded 1,461 cases and 17 deaths, while Georgia reported 1,097 cases and 38 deaths. Additionally, Indiana went from a handful of cases about a week ago to 365.

Exactly a month after Donald Trump tweeted that the United States had the Coronavirus outbreak "very much under control" the WHO delivered a stark and jarring reality check "America faces being the center of a pandemic that has paralyzed much of the world" Coronavirus has raced across the American continent with the aid of a chronic lack of preparation, deep rooted dysfunction in the US healthcare system and a president who has repeatedly dismissed the crisis then is now looking to scale back containment efforts in favor of restarting economic activity. More than 54,000 people in the US have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and nearly 800 have died, on Monday for the first time, more the 100 people in the US died in a single day, the sharp acceleration in cases, just two weeks ago the official number was less than 2,000, has led to the WHO warning that the US is overtaking countries such as Italy, China and Spain as the global hot-spot of the epidemic, the true scale of infection in the US is almost certainly far worse, with a severe lack of testing having stymied efforts to contain Coronavirus once it emerged near Seattle, Trump initially referred to media coverage of the outbreak as a "hoax" before banning travel from China, where COVID-19 originated and claiming it had been nearly vanquished on US soil but the US response has been hobbled by the administration's rejection of standard WHO testing kits, instead opting to develop its own, which turned out to be faulty. The Trump administration previously dismantled a federal team working on pandemics and cut back a Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) group based in China tasked with tracking new threats such as Coronavirus.
Expert in the environment and health at Stony Brook University said, "The administration has repeatedly and systematically corroded critical parts of the CDC, this was just begging for an epidemic to hit us, it was a perfect storm of lack of preparation". Muddled messaging from the White House, where Trump has often contradicted the sombre warnings of his top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci, has done little to Americans stop congregating on beaches or in shopping malls, state governors have taken up the mantle, shutting down public gatherings and non-essential businesses but a paucity of medical supplies has led doctors and nurses to beg for items online, dressmakers have been asked to make masks for hospital workers, as one hospital's equipment supply diminished, one anesthesiologist wore a plastic bag over his head during a procedure, these shortages have only worsened pre-existing problems, nearly one in 10 Americans have no health insurance, while a widespread lack of sick pay across the country has forced many people into work despite the risk of spreading the Coronavirus.
Supply shortages are not unique to New York, doctors have sounded the alarm on dwindling medical supplies across all the country, when it comes to personal protective equipment hospital staff are in urgent need of everything because working in a hospital without that is like going to war with a water gun, everything is limited, ventilators, beds negative pressure rooms, nurses,... That stance a reversal on previous assertions that the US was at war, put the president once again on a collision course with governors and public health experts for tens of millions of anxious Americans, the coming weeks will probably shape the contours of COVID-19 crisis.