As of December 31, 2020, there were nearly 20 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States, amounting to 1997,120 cases and 345,826 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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The United States reported its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on January 21, 2020.
As a powerful superpower with advanced science and technology and perfect medical treatment, the United States, under the government’s inaction and indiscriminate acts, has repeatedly made “bad decisions”, resulting in an annual report of “complete failure” in the fight against COVID-19 and becoming the country with the worst epidemic in the world.
What about the “nightmare” January of the “viral tsunami”?
In 2020, the year of the global pandemic, the United States, as the sole superpower, not only leads the world in the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, but also in other relevant epidemic data.
American epidemiologists have warned that the United States is in the midst of a “viral tsunami.”
The mounting numbers are causing hospitals across the country to run overstretched and the health care system to the brink of collapse.
Take the most populous state, California, for example. It was the first STATE in the United States to break the one million mark. The state has recorded another record number of new deaths in a single day.
California’s health care system is so overwhelmed that patients’ tents have been set up on the street outside waiting rooms at some hospitals, US media reported. The number of cases in California’s prisons has soared, with many calling for the early release of some prisoners.
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SAN Quentin prison, California, USA
According to a CDC forecast released on December 30, 2020, between 383,000 and 424,000 people in the United States could die from COVID-19 by January 23, 2021.
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A screenshot from the CNN report
According to a CNN report, December 2020 is the “deadliest” month since the outbreak began in the US. The US faces the prospect of a “nightmare” January after the year-end holidays, with more confirmed cases and hospitalizations, and inevitably more deaths.
On December 29, 2020, Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said bluntly that COVID-19 prevention and control in the United States is “out of control in many ways.”
Fauci: We’re out of control in so many ways. The numbers speak for themselves and we are in a very difficult situation – we have never been able to get the number of infections down to a low level to contain community transmission. Today, effective identification of infected persons, quarantine measures, tracing of close contacts… Has been very, very difficult. On top of that, it’s winter now, and it’s too late.
How to cure the “ignorance and irrationality” of White House politicians?
And the Trump administration has been regarded as the “ultimate anti-epidemic artifact” of the vaccine, after vaccination is chaotic.
While the U.S. has been scrambling to stockpile vaccines around the world, it has been embroiled in controversy at home over the unfair distribution of vaccines, incomplete vaccination data and slower than expected progress.
The Washington Post recently published an opinion piece saying that despite the start of vaccination in the US, vaccines will not end the country’s “ignorance and irrationality”.
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Screenshots from the Washington Post
In the face of the deteriorating situation at home, the politicians in the White House, for political expediency and electoral needs, have broken the contract and dismissed the blame from the public, and abandoned the overall interest of international cooperation against the epidemic, while using politics to suppress science and mislead public opinion at home.
In fact, for months, the anti-wisdom of the White House has dominated the thinking at the national level:
— Ignoring, or even demonizing, basic requirements for epidemic prevention, such as wearing masks and maintaining social distance;
— Ignoring the importance of virus detection, believing that “the more detection, the more ill”;
— Holding campaign rallies and White House parties at the height of the epidemic;
— They suppressed and excluded scientists such as Fauci, directly interfered with the operations of professional anti-epidemic agencies such as the CDC and the FDA, and appointed laymen such as Scott Atlas to spread “myths” including collective immunization and children not to worry about infection.
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Rick Bright, an American vaccine expert, was fired in April 2020 for accusing senior administration officials of deliberately downplaying the threat of the epidemic and not promoting the COVID-19 treatment favored by the White House. He was ousted from another agency six months later and resigned because he could not bear to be sidelined. Data figure
The anti-intellectual guiding ideology continues to promote anti-intellectual social performance, leading to a gradual deterioration of the anti-epidemic performance of the United States.
Fauci has lamented that simple precautions, such as wearing masks and avoiding gatherings, have become political statements.
And americans continued to venture to and from other parts of the country during the year-end holiday season, with record numbers of air travel.
The day before, more than 1.28 million travelers passed through airport security, the highest number since mid-March 2020, according to THE Transportation Security Administration on Dec. 28.
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In Los Angeles at the end of 2020, millions of Americans took to the air.
CBS news chief medical correspondent John Saint Horn expressed concern.
St. Horn: The idea that you won’t see a surge in cases in the United States after the massive travel during the holidays and New Year is just crazy. The biggest misconception people have about the virus epidemic is that they have done a novel Coronavirus test today and it will be safe to travel tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Remember, novel Coronavirus has an incubation period of 2 to 14 days!
What kind of reflection does the annual Us media Lie contest cause?
There are many other reasons why COVID-19 is out of control in the United States: the lack of a unified epidemic response and standards; State policies vary widely and lack continuity; Politicizing public health issues, etc.
“Downplaying and denying COVID-19” was recently named the “Lie of the Year” of 2020 by political-Fact News.
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The United States “political fact” current government news report screenshot
The world must stand together, who Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebrev said in a New Year message delivered in Geneva on 30 December 2020. If we want to defeat the epidemic, we must fight the epidemic in a scientific way with solidarity and cooperation.
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Who Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers New Year’s Message
Tam kung plug:
Entering 2021, we have a simple and profound choice:
Is it to ignore the lessons of 2020 and tolerate conservative and biased responses, conspiracy theories and attacks on science, causing unnecessary suffering to human health and society as a whole?
Or will we help each other through this crisis, distributing vaccines equitably and providing accurate advice, compassion and care to all who need it?
The choice is easy.
There is light at the end of the tunnel, and we will walk it together.
Every word that Tedros said deserves a lot of reflection in this administration.
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