More than 500 deaths were reported in the U.S. Monday, the highest daily total since the first American died six weeks ago.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the face of the national effort to curb the coronavirus crisis, offered a glimmer of hope Tuesday, saying social distancing was working and that the rate of increase of cases in New York City might be slowing.
But it won't happen until the supply is sufficient to ensure that all health care workers are adequately equipped, he added. Fauci also stressed that the masks would do little to protect the wearer but could help keep the wearer from spreading the disease.Chris Cuomo, a CNN journalist and brother of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo,. Cuomo said on Twitter that he had fever, chills and shortness of breath and is self-isolating in the basement of his home.
Authorities announced Tuesday that 250 more ambulances and 500 paramedics and EMTs are headed to New York from across the nation to help manage record numbers of calls for assistance. "We need every country to keep responding – detecting, isolating, treating cases and tracing contacts, plus physical distancing," said Dr. Takeshi Kasai, the World Health Organization’s regional director for the Western Pacific."We know it works! And all countries need to keep preparing for large-scale community transmission."after booming gains Monday.
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