More Than 15.5 Million Cases

Already going past 15.5 million coronavirus cases worldwide! 

South Africa and Iraq reached new milestones: 400,000 and 100,000 cases respectively yesterday. And India had recorded 30,000 deaths.

More than 150 prominent US medical experts, scientists and others have signed a letter to their country’s political leaders urging them to shut down the US of A and start over to contain the surging coronavirus pandemic. It was sent to the Trump administration, leading members of Congress and state governors on Thursday. 

“Our decision makers need to hit the reset button”, said Matt Wellington (right), the public health campaigns director for the advocacy group US PIRG, which joined with health experts to draft the letter. 

“Continuing on the path we’re on now will result in widespread suffering and death. And for what? Health experts laid out criteria for how to reopen safely. It’s time to listen to them”, Wellington said.

And the document spells out that more than 200,000 American lives will be lost by November 1st – if the country continues to persist in opening up.

I'm not optimistic. I don't expect anything to change in that country because the US is too full of itself. I believe we have to live with the choices we make. 

Interestingly enough, the coronavirus situation in the US is not as bad as it is made out to be, statistically-speaking. 

In my blog post (“A US Record on Friday”) published nearly 3 months ago, I had highlighted that the largest number of Covid-19 fatalities in a single day came from the US. Then, it was the only country in the world to see more than 2,000 people die in that one day, i.e. April 10. 

Fast forward to today (July 24, 2020, 00:00 GMT), and American fatalities have dipped by 50%. 

Of course, the US remains perched at the No. 1 position in infections and deaths. And that will still prevail. 

That is the price Americans must pay for Donald Trump's detachment, indifference and apathy