U.S. tops 5 million coronavirus cases as outbreak threatens America's Midwest

 

We don't know what the future is for this virus.  Some die out after enough people have been exposed, like colds and flue, others  a horrible price.  Eg., the Black Plague died out in Europe, but that was after three hundred years, and after it killed at least a third of Europeans.  Smallpox and polio did not die out until we have effective vaccinations.

 

 
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/09/coronavirus-us-tops-5-million-cases-as-outbreak-threatens-americas-heartland.html

 

Published Sun, Aug 9 202010:48 AM EDTUpdated Moments Ago
Noah Higgins-Dunn

The United States has surpassed 5 million Covid-19 cases, a grisly milestone that represents roughly a quarter of all infections across the world confirmed since the coronavirus first emerged from Wuhan, China a little over seven months ago. 

It took just six weeks for the number of Covid-19 infections to double in the U.S., which logged the last 1 million infections over the last two weeks, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

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Doctors say they’ve been able to save more lives compared with the peak in New York in March and April because they know more about the virus and have discovered better treatments, such as remdesivir. The recent surge in cases has also affected far more younger people, who also have higher survival rates.

U.S. health officials fear the virus may be widely circulating in parts of the Midwest now. White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci and coronavirus task force coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx have voiced concern that states like Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky and Indiana are beginning to see a tick up in their so-called positivity rates, or the percent of tests that are positive.

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“Every country has suffered. We, the United States, has suffered ... as much or worse than anyone,” Fauci said during an interview with CNN and the Harvard School of Public Health on Wednesday.

“I mean when you look at the number of infections and the number of deaths, it really is quite concerning,” he said.

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However, Trump said on Wednesday that there’s “no question” the virus will eventually “go away like things go away.” The president’s comments contradict his medical advisors and the World Health Organization, which have all warned that the virus may never be completely eradicated from the planet. The president also continued to push for schools to reopen this fall, saying that he believes most of them will. When it comes to the coronavirus, he said children are able to “throw it off very easily.”