WASHINGTON, July 6 — US Sunbelt mayors warned yesterday that their cities are at risk of being overwhelmed by a surge of coronavirus cases as they pushed back against US President Donald Trump’s attempt to minimize the gravity of the spreading virus. Covid-19 has been raging for weeks across...
People stand in queue to enter a restaurant on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, Florida on June 26, 2020. — AFP pic
With President Trump continuing to play down the disease — eschewing a mask, continuing to address large gatherings, saying a vaccine is only months away and asserting that “99 per cent” of cases are not serious — the exasperation of local officials has begun to boil over, with some floating the idea of new stay-at-home orders.
Insufficient testing capacity has left some people — including some feeling symptoms — waiting up to eight hours in their cars to be tested, Gallego said. Regarding the president’s prediction that a vaccine would be available “long before the end of the year,” Hahn said, “I can’t predict when a vaccine will be available.”
“It is dangerous not to be sending a clear message to Americans,” he told CNN. “We’re on a trajectory right now we could be inundating our intensive care units here within the next week to 10 days.”
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