On April 13, local time, Robert Redfield, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) that the United States is now approaching the peak of the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic.
Officials such as Redfield said measures including increasing “social distance” may be working, and the rate of newly diagnosed cases is slowing.
“The model does show that we are very close to the peak of the epidemic.” Officials from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told NBC.
In an interview with CNN (CNN) on April 10, Redfield stated that the peak of the new coronavirus outbreak in the United States is coming, the United States Will soon appear at the other end of the (epidemic development) curve.
In order to reduce the pressure on medical institutions caused by the sudden outbreak of new coronavirus in the United States, several medical experts and news were launched by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The “flatten the curve” initiative called for media participation has received widespread attention on social media.
Epidemiologists call for measures such as “increasing social distance” early in the outbreak to delay the peak of the outbreak and reduce the number of peak diagnoses.
Redfield attributed this sign of improvement to positive social isolation measures, he said: “I think when we see that the mortality rate is indeed higher than expected When it was much lower, I saw the effect of it (social isolation measures). “
Anthony, director of the National Institutes of Health ’s Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, top American infectious disease expert · Anthony S. Fauci said that the expected death toll in the US has dropped to about 60,000. Earlier, the White House New Corona Virus Task Force had stated that the death toll caused by the US epidemic was expected to be between 100,000 and 240,000.
In an interview with the National Public Radio (NPR), Redfield stated that 25% of new coronary infections in the United States are asymptomatic, and the epidemic or Continue to affect people’s lives within 24 months.
Redfield said that new coronary pneumonia is more important than fluThe transmission is much easier, in part because the infected person can spread the virus up to 48 hours before the body becomes unwell.