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The start of the new week Monday, to most people, will look like the past couple of weeks of shutdowns, suffering and deaths with one big difference: the impact of the coronavirus is about to get much worse, health officials warn. Maybe, after a couple weeks of even more severe suffering, they say, things just might get a little better.
But not yet.
“This is going to be our Pearl Harbor moment, our 9/11 moment, only it’s not going to be localized,” U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams Sunday. He added: “It’s going to to be happening all over the country. And I want Americans to understand that as hard as this week is going to be, there is a light at the end of the tunnel.”
For now, though, it’s about getting through the coming days.
“The next two weeks are extraordinarily important,” Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House’s coronavirus response coordinator, said at Saturday’s task force news conference. “This is the moment to keep your family and your friends safe, and that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing their hands.”
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The somber assessment is for an even greater bombardment of sick American on hospitals that are already exploding over capacity. In an unprecedented move, the U.S. Northern Command, which oversees military operations in North America, is sending 1,000 Air Force and Navy medicinal providers to New York City area.
The influx in medical personnel on Monday comes at the end of a five-day period where the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in New York City skyrocketed by roughly 20,000, city data shows.
In a sick twist of irony, the zip code covering Corona, Queens, has the most confirmed cases — 1,337 — of anywhere in the city.
In one good piece of news from this weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio opened his Sunday news conference with the information that New York City hadn’t run out of ventilators for new coronavirus patients on Sunday as originally feared. But a shortage may still be near.
“It’s good in one way that the original projection was cautious and that we have a few more days,” he said Sunday. “But I want to be clear, it only means a few more days.”
As the numbers surge in New York, cases also continue to rise across the country. Louisiana, Michigan and Illinois are growing hotspots.
By Sunday night, more than 337,000 people in the United States were infected by the virus and more than 9,600 were dead, according to Johns Hopkins University. Around 15,000 have recovered.
With the number continuing to jump nationally, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is now recommending that when people go out they use some kind of face covering — but nothing medical grade because health workers need them desperately.
Multiple cities across the United States have recently adjusted their rules to reflect the recommendation from the CDC, with both Boston and New York City updating their guidelines on face covering over the weekend. However, one city in Texas is going above and beyond to enforce that all residents cover their faces.
Laredo, Texas, passed an emergency mandate that went into effect on April 2, which states every resident over the age of five must wear “some form of covering over their nose and mouth,” when using public transportation, taxis, ride share, gas stations or when inside a building open to the public.
The penalty for failure to do so is punishable by a fine up to $1,000.
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