By Shelby Lin Erdman, Jacqueline Howard, Jen Christensen and Katia Hetter
More than 150 popular US medical experts, researchers, teachers, nurses and others have signed a letter prompting political leaders to close down the nation and start over to include the surging coronavirus pandemic.
” The very best thing for the country is not to reopen as rapidly as possible, it’s to save as many lives as possible,” they wrote in the file, which was sent Thursday to the Trump administration, leading members of Congress and state governors.
” Right now, we are on a course to lose more than 200,000 American lives by November 1st. In numerous states people can consume in bars, get a haircut, eat inside a restaurant, get a tattoo, get a massage, and do myriad other regular, enjoyable, however non-essential activities.”
Their recommendations come as the United States crossed the 4 million mark on Thursday, with at least 4,028,741 cases of coronavirus and 144,072 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s count.
Covid-19 “will end up as a Top 10 leading cause of death” this year, statisticians from US Centers for Illness Control and Avoidance anticipated in a Thursday e-mail to CNN.
Although the CDC can not start ranking leading causes of deaths up until the end of the year– in order to get a complete year’s worth of data– firm statisticians at the firm said they ex