Tedros said, “If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go.” “It’s going to get worse and worse and worse”
On Monday, the tension mounted as the United States grapples with a resurgent of coronavirus outbreak, as global health officials warned that the pandemic will only intensify worldwide unless officials adopt comprehensive strategies to combat it.
The director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, “The virus’ spread is worsening in many countries and there will be no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future.” Tedros called for countries to come up with comprehensive strategies, and noted that roughly half of all new cases are in the Americas. His remarks came a day after Florida shattered the record among U.S. states for the largest single-day increase in new confirmed cases, with more than 15,000.
Tedros said, “If the basics aren’t followed, there is only one way this pandemic is going to go.” “It’s going to get worse and worse and worse.”
The two WHO experts were in China for a mission to trace the origin of the pandemic. The virus was first detected in central China’s city of Wuhan late last year. Beijing had been reluctant to allow a probe but relented after scores of countries called on the WHO to conduct a thorough investigation.
The probe comes as cases continue to rise in many U.S. states, especially in the South and West. “I really do think we could control this, and it’s the human element that is so critical. It should be an effort in our country. We should be pulling together when we’re in a crisis, and we’re definitely not doing it,” said University of Florida epidemiologist Cindy Prins.
The U.S. totals are still well below the numbers reached in April, according to a recent Associated Press analysis of data from John Hopkins University. But with President Donald Trump pressuring school districts to reopen this fall, and with the academic year in some southern states just weeks away, the debate over how to respond to the resurgence is growing more heated.
”I do think that there are going to be many challenges to opening schools safely and just kind of asserting that just because they want to open safely doesn’t make it so,” Dr. Tom Inglesby, director for the Center of Health Security at Johns Hopkins University, told a Fox News interviewer on Sunday.
The numbers come at the end of a record-breaking week as Florida reported 514 fatalities an average of 73 per day. Three weeks ago, the state was averaging 30 deaths per day. Regarding the WHO experts in China, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said they would work with Chinese scientists and medical experts on scientific cooperation on the new coronavirus tracing issue.
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