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Cases in hot spots like New York appear to be levelling off, professionals say.
Professionals on the White Home Covid-19 job force say the coronavirus break out is starting to level off across the United States.
Dr Deborah Birx said there were great signs the break out was stabilising, but warned: “As motivating as they are, we have not reached the peak.”
President Donald Trump likewise said he anticipates the United States to see a lower death toll than the initial forecasts of 100,000 casualties.
The US has over 475,000 confirmed cases and nearly 18,000 deaths so far.
Dr Anthony Fauci, United States contagious illness chief, concurred that the United States is “starting to see the levelling off and coming down” of cases and deaths.
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She added that the United States death rate is “considerably less than many of the other countries, when you fix them for our population”.
But she stressed the nation had yet to see the peak of the outbreak.
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Washington state has anticipated the nation’s death count will peak on Friday and then begin decreasing.
