Coronavirus update: Dr. Fauci sounds warning about looking on the 'bright side'
On a somber day for Americans, the number of U.S. cases and deaths resulting from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 continued to climb to lead the world, prompting Dr. Anthony Fauci to express frustration in the “lack of success” the U.S. has had in containing the outbreak as the pandemic reached the six-month mark.
He said that while daily new cases have come down a bit — the daily average is down 16% from the average two weeks earlier — he said it was still an “extraordinarily unacceptable baseline” when considering the economy is reopening. When he presented data showing the reason for the high baseline, when compared with other countries, was likely because the U.S. didn’t shut down to the extent of other countries, he “got a little push back from people in the government.
In other news: • Despite some recent claims that the U.S. mortality rate was one of the lowest in the world, New York Times data showed that out of 169 countries, U.S. had the 51st highest rate at 3.0%, which puts it in the 70th percentile. And for deaths per 100,000 population, it was among the highest at 58.61.
• A new report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that people who tested positive for COVID-19 were about twice as likely to have reported eating recently at a restaurant compared with people who tested negative. Read more. The U.S. case and death tolls are by far the highest in the world. In cases, India is second at 4.56 million and Brazil is third at 4.24 million, followed by Russia at 1.05 million and Peru at 710,067.
China has 90,139 confirmed cases and 4,733 deaths, according to its official numbers, while 85,021 have recovered.
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